09-11-2020, 10:25 AM
I've been monitoring the TN Dpt of Health COVID dashboard since this thing started.
They recently changed some of the stats displayed on the dashboard. Typically they've showed:
They've updated Hospitalizations to show Daily and Current. I get that.
They added a daily positive ticker to the Tests box. OK, fine.
They removed Recoveries. I don't get that. Maybe they're netting Hospitalizations and Recoveries and that's why they're now showing Current under hospitalizations. I don't know. I'll have to look at the data more closely to figure it out.
I also look at their downloadable daily data set. Don't click that unless you want to download an excel ss.
So, looking at the data set sheet, I noticed they stopped reporting NEW_RECOVERED and TOTAL_RECOVERED as of 9/3/20.
The two columns to the right of the recovered columns are NEW_ACTIVE and TOTAL_ACTIVE.
Interestingly, on 9/2/20, the last day they reported NEW_RECOVERED and TOTAL_RECOVERED, there were 35,359 TOTAL_ACTIVE cases.
On 9/3/20, the first day with no data reported for NEW_RECOVERED and TOTAL_RECOVERED, the NEW_ACTIVE number was -19,196 which dropped the TOTAL_ACTIVE number from 35,359 to 16,163.
The days that followed have more negative numbers.
As of yesterday, 9/10/20, the number of TOTAL_ACTIVE dropped from 35,359 to 15,047 in the span of 8 days -- a net decrease of 20,312 cases.
It makes me wonder if they're changing data definitions or how they calculate the data.
They recently changed some of the stats displayed on the dashboard. Typically they've showed:
- Cases (Daily & Total)
- Deaths (Daily & Total)
- Hospitalizations (Daily & Total)
- Recoveries (Daily & Total)
- Tests (Daily & Total)
They've updated Hospitalizations to show Daily and Current. I get that.
They added a daily positive ticker to the Tests box. OK, fine.
They removed Recoveries. I don't get that. Maybe they're netting Hospitalizations and Recoveries and that's why they're now showing Current under hospitalizations. I don't know. I'll have to look at the data more closely to figure it out.
I also look at their downloadable daily data set. Don't click that unless you want to download an excel ss.
So, looking at the data set sheet, I noticed they stopped reporting NEW_RECOVERED and TOTAL_RECOVERED as of 9/3/20.
The two columns to the right of the recovered columns are NEW_ACTIVE and TOTAL_ACTIVE.
Interestingly, on 9/2/20, the last day they reported NEW_RECOVERED and TOTAL_RECOVERED, there were 35,359 TOTAL_ACTIVE cases.
On 9/3/20, the first day with no data reported for NEW_RECOVERED and TOTAL_RECOVERED, the NEW_ACTIVE number was -19,196 which dropped the TOTAL_ACTIVE number from 35,359 to 16,163.
The days that followed have more negative numbers.
As of yesterday, 9/10/20, the number of TOTAL_ACTIVE dropped from 35,359 to 15,047 in the span of 8 days -- a net decrease of 20,312 cases.
It makes me wonder if they're changing data definitions or how they calculate the data.