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7 Oct, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Our daily update is published. States reported 851k tests, 51k cases, and 916 deaths. Montana and South Dakota both hit record high COVID-19 case counts today.
States reported 32k patients are currently hospitalized with COVID-19. Trends in the midwest, particularly in Wisconsin, are worrisome.
A note for Missouri data: today, we continue our changes to the values in our original totalTestResults API field, resulting in a ~8k increase in daily new tests and a ~579k cumulative increase.
The rise is due to the inclusion of repeat testing, which is the result of our change in units from people to specimens. Also, we are no longer calculating totals by adding positive and negative but drawing from directly reported totals. covidtracking.com/blog/counting-…

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We are in the process of changing the total test results in our original totalTestResults API field for each state from positive+negative to directly reported totals, one state at a time, preferring Test Encounters or Specimens as the unit for total tests. covidtracking.com/blog/counting-…
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