Notes

West Virginia reports long-term care data, but does not provide what types of facilities this includes. COVID Tracking Project puts long-term care data in the Lumped or Other category in our dataset. West Virginia reports cumulative and outbreak data. West Virginia reports resident and staff cases separately, however, resident and staff deaths are combined. West Virginia reports facility-level data.

West Virginia provides cumulative totals for resident and staff cases, and resident and staff combined deaths.

West Virginia reports outbreak data for resident and staff cases, and resident and staff deaths. West Virginia defines an outbreak as one lab confirmed case within a 14-day period. An outbreak ends when 14 days have passed.

West Virginia provides facility-level data.

West Virginia provides cumulative counts per facility, so COVID Tracking Project sums each facility's data to produce a top line cumulative number.

On August 13, 2020, COVID Tracking Project reported that West Virginia, which was previously only reporting “active” cases, began including cumulative case and death totals by facility.

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Facility notes

The state provides facility-level cumulative data. The state provides facility-level outbreak data. Cumulative facility-level data was first reported by the state on 2020-08-13. Outbreak facility-level data was first reported by the state on 2020-06-18.

Because each state reports facility-level data differently, CTP has produced a number of scripts to make the dataset as standardized and comprehensive as possible. This state uses the following scripts: standardize_data. More information on each of these scripts can be found in our Airtable Facility Script Annotations. (https://airtable.com/shr99Ep06cplrcVg6)