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[Tracking] States with questionable county-level testing data (currently disabled from CAN usage) #138

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@mikelehen

We disabled the county-level testing data from Covid County Data for the following states due to discrepancies when compared to the PCR Test Specimen-based test positivity data from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services: "AL", "DE", "FL", "IN", "IA", "MD", "ND", "NE", "PA", "RI", "WI"

Possible issues with the CCD data:

  • Represents unique people tested instead of test specimens or similar. (I think this applies to AL, DE, FL, and maybe IN, PA, WI)
  • There was no "positive_tests_total" data and so we used "cases_total" as the numerator, which sometimes includes probable tests and therefore inflates the numerator. (possibly true for AL, IA, MD)

More detailed comparison notes (possibly too stale / subjective to be very useful) found here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1fvgUxiGTKkPOI3mUaeKgdEZ530jm0xzrIgQXt9LFerY/edit#gid=0

Note that the data is hard to compare directly since CMS provides a 14d test positivity percent rather than raw positive / total test numbers. So the comparison was somewhat subjective.

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