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Thanks burger. 

Are these stats based on recorded date or actual date?

IOW, if hospitalized on 1st, but recorded to the department on the 5th, which date gets credit?

If based on actual date,  that would make the optimistic severe dropoff off over the last few days not as rosy.

I'm using data from here: https://covidtracking.com/about-data

They get their data from state health departments.  I'm not sure how much lag there is between the date of a death and when it shows up in the stats--it's probably different from state to state.  Hopefully using a moving average helps to smooth over those sorts of discrepancies.

I looked at the hospitalization data, too, but it's a mess. It's probably not reliable outside of places that are doing a good job of reporting those numbers.

[burger]

Thanks burger. 

Are these stats based on recorded date or actual date?

IOW, if hospitalized on 1st, but recorded to the department on the 5th, which date gets credit?

If based on actual date,  that would make the optimistic severe dropoff off over the last few days not as rosy.

I'm using data from here: https://covidtracking.com/about-data

They get their data from state health departments.  I'm not sure how much lag there is between the date of a death and when it shows up in the stats--it's probably different from state to state.  Hopefully using a moving average helps to smooth over those sorts of discrepancies.

I looked at the hospitalization data, too, but it's a mess. It's probably not reliable outside of places that are doing a good job of reporting those numbers.