Sunday, November 15, 2020

Gonna' Need a Dummy Variable

Not really sure what the story is, but there's been a data glitch in the reporting of cases for Utah.

The data reported on Friday the 13th (go figure), for Thursday, November 12th, show far fewer cases than are reasonable to expect.

A data glitch produced artificially low coronavirus case numbers on Friday in Utah, with “only” 2,150 new diagnoses reported, state health officials said.

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For the past week, the state has averaged 2,616 new positive test results a day, but that figure also reflects the data glitch producing artificially low numbers of new cases; the true number is higher than that, UDOH reported. For the past week, 23.5% of all tests have come back positive — also potentially affected by the reporting error.

The glitch caused the string of 25 straight days setting a new record for cases over the last 7 days to an end.

Not surprisingly, the "catch up" data released on Saturday the 14th showed a new record in cases over the last 7 days. That's a total of 55 records since September 1st. 

Go Utah!

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