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US County level info is no longer being reported #601 (Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Website only reports at the US State level now)
GitHub ^ | March 12, 2020 | N/A

Posted on 03/12/2020 8:10:06 PM PDT by DoodleBob

US County level info was extremely useful and important. It looks like since 3/10, county level info has been removed. The ArcGis JHU map no longer shows county level numbers. Please bring it back.

This seems to be the data set after which this change started happening: 82e1397#diff-eb3e961500680278537f38c751212d2e

cscollett commented 1 hour ago •

Yes, it sounds like they were having some issues with the county data lagging the state data or some places not reporting by county at all. Having both was also resulting in double counting if people didn't programmatically divide the by-state and by-county data, and aggregate only one of them.

The issue is here: #590

I hope they reconsider. I was mapping the counties to major metropolitan areas. That can often be inferred by State data, because there will only be one big city with most of the density. But in places like CA and TX with more than one major metropolitan area, the state data is less useful.


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This may be inside-baseball stuff, but the removal of County-Level details makes it MUCH harder to track and monitor what's happening in the US. Yes, the County-level detail MAY have caused some double-counting problem, but there are simpler ways of fixing those problems that don't detract from the important granularity provided previously.
1 posted on 03/12/2020 8:10:06 PM PDT by DoodleBob
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To: DoodleBob

Does someone have a link. The one I was using looked like it had problems this morning, and now the total US cases seem low and are lagging far behind what worldometer is reporting.


2 posted on 03/12/2020 8:17:13 PM PDT by politicket (Don't remove a Bernie Sanders bumper sticker. It's the only thing holding the car together!)
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To: DoodleBob

Try getting state/county-level data from state departments of health. I know that PA DoH is reporting by county. And, yeah, going to 50 different sites is a lot of work.


3 posted on 03/12/2020 8:17:21 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA
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To: DoughtyOne; null and void; RummyChick; Vermont Lt; cgbg; iacovatx; WildHighlander57; cpdiii

Coronavirus geek ping


4 posted on 03/12/2020 8:17:48 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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To: DoodleBob

You familiar with this site?
https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1yCPR-ukAgE55sROnmBUFmtLN6riVLTu3&ll=34.461409795022156%2C0&z=2


5 posted on 03/12/2020 8:18:40 PM PDT by LouieFisk
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To: politicket
If you click through, you'll find the GitHub location of the csv files used by JH. Or just go to https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19
6 posted on 03/12/2020 8:19:40 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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To: DoodleBob

I am just going to assume everyone has it..stay away from me and let me use my hand sanitizer..

...if I get sick I got it...take my medical protocol at first sign..

and if someone ends up dead of pneumonia then they had it

Covers all the bases until this burns itself out.


7 posted on 03/12/2020 8:22:10 PM PDT by RummyChick
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To: LouieFisk

I wasn’t but that is a cool-looking site. Thank you. However, it’s not clear what is the source data. I’ll take accuracy over cool graphics on this saga.


8 posted on 03/12/2020 8:22:29 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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To: RummyChick

9 posted on 03/12/2020 8:24:35 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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To: DoodleBob

Crowd sourced from Reddit local reports. When you click on the individual locations on the map, the location & county is displayed on the left hand column, along with a source.
You could also try searching with something like “county” using the left hand column’s search box.


10 posted on 03/12/2020 8:27:03 PM PDT by LouieFisk
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To: ConservativeInPA
Oh, I know data collection is the most tedious but most important part of a job. If you get it wrong, everything else suffers.

Did you hear about Montgomery County going into lock down big time?

11 posted on 03/12/2020 8:27:52 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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To: LouieFisk

That (crowdsourcing) MAY be better vs what we’re now getting from JH. Thanks for the tip.


12 posted on 03/12/2020 8:28:59 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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Yes, I heard. 13 presumptive positives there. Slow testing. All cases in PA are counties that border the Delaware river, less Montgomery Co. I’m outside Harrisburg. All is quiet here so far. Grocery shopping was still ok over the weekend, but that was 5 days ago.


13 posted on 03/12/2020 8:31:51 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA
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To: DoodleBob

Yer welcome. Each location/instance cited has a source document - local news story, government announcement/news release or the like.


14 posted on 03/12/2020 8:32:27 PM PDT by LouieFisk
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I heard the CDC only completed testing 77 cases this week. Then Sacramento county just lets them go. If you want to make sure it spreads, that's what you do.

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"Effective immediately, people in Sacramento County should not quarantine themselves if they've been exposed to the COVID-19. Instead, they should go into isolation only if they begin to show symptoms of the respiratory virus, the county's health department says."

Coronavirus: Sacramento County Gives Up On Automatic 14-Day Quarantines

15 posted on 03/12/2020 8:39:38 PM PDT by Karl Spooner
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To: DoodleBob

Thanks for the mention.

The internet map was down about 10 hours today.

I was wondering if it was gone for good.


16 posted on 03/12/2020 8:40:03 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (The end is nigh, and COVID-19 was beat out by the fearmongers... enough already!)
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Thanks! It seems like their data for worldwide infection is now running about 6,000 less than Worldometer.

I wonder what the difference is.

17 posted on 03/12/2020 8:41:00 PM PDT by politicket (Don't remove a Bernie Sanders bumper sticker. It's the only thing holding the car together!)
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To: DoodleBob

If you are looking for state and county local breakdown try this link: https://coronavirus.1point3acres.com/


18 posted on 03/12/2020 9:04:59 PM PDT by CharleysPride
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To: LouieFisk

Wow, that’s an amazing map.

I see there are no cases in Venezuela. There can be only once conclusion: ¡Viva Socialismo!


19 posted on 03/12/2020 9:10:30 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: DoodleBob

If you click on the symbols, a pop-up will show you the data source for every case.

There’s a “+” symbol in the center of the country. The pop-up says they are looking for new editors for that region. So it appears to be a crowd-sourced map.


20 posted on 03/12/2020 9:11:53 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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