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Our daily update is published. States reported 1.2M tests, 53k cases, 55,403 people currently hospitalized, and 1,235 deaths.
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Reported COVID-19 deaths in VA have been notably high for 3 days as the state is processing death certificates from the post-holiday case surge.
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Since our dataset uses NYS reported deaths which does not include the more than 8,000 deaths that are reported by NYC, our total death count is lagging behind other trackers that marked 500k deaths today. We also recognize that COVID-19 deaths in the US are an undercount.
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Day-of-week effects are a major cause of day to day fluctuations in COVID-19 data. Read about them here: https://covidtracking.com/analysis-updates/how-day-of-week-effects-impact-covid-19-data…
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The number of states reporting can vary widely depending on the day of the week. On weekends, almost a third of states don’t report, or they report incomplete data.
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Because day-of-week effects can mimic true trends in data, it’s important to understand what they are and how they affect the data. Here we outline best practices for interpreting COVID-19 data, accounting for day-of-week fluctuations. https://covidtracking.com/analysis-updates/how-day-of-week-effects-impact-covid-19-data…
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