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14 Jan, 6 tweets, 2 min read

Our daily update is published. States reported 1.8M tests, 219k cases, 130,383 people currently hospitalized with COVID-19, and 4,022 deaths.

COVID-19 deaths are up by 10% or more in 25 states across the US. Today is the third time deaths have been above 4,000.

Starting today, we will be capturing Oregon’s data the day after it is published, as they regularly update their COVID-19 pages and dashboards after we release our daily update. We have shifted their entire timeseries accordingly.

Today we have removed most state-level “recovered” data from our website, though the values remain in our API and will continue to be updated. We have shifted to reporting only hospital discharges for the 8 states that report this metric.

We have taken this step because “recovered” values are largely estimates of non-infectiousness that do not account for the fact that many people suffer long-term health consequences after contracting COVID-19, and because no two states define the metric in the same way.

Unfortunately, we just don’t know how many people have recovered from COVID-19, and in the absence of national data standards, we might never know. Read more about these issues at covidtracking.com/analysis-updat…

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