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John Hopkins Covid Data Errors
- dahart 7y agoWithout more info, I would assume data repeated is just data not being reported on a given day, and it will be corrected the next time it’s reported. Of course it could be a mistake, but personally I think it’s a mistake to assume that this data isn’t already off by like 10x in number of actual infections. This is the “confirmed” cases being reported, but we know for a fact already that lots and lots of people have been refused tests, or didn’t have access to tests, or didn’t show strong enough symptoms to care, or any number of other reasons. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with reporting it and trying to fix it, but I wouldn’t get too hung up on slight glitches in the reporting here when the source as a whole has a lot of error. (I’m referring to, for example, the comment complaining about accuracy being super important because people are panicking.)
- tejtm 7y agoUsing the last know correct value is not more wrong that posting zero or NULL. Not updating it when they could would be problematic but there is allot going on, maybe give them some breathing room.