I have struggled most of the month to find replacements for three of our original five sources of confirmed data, which have either reduced the frequency of their reports, reduced the number of counties they track (mostly the rural counties) or stopped tracking altogether.
It takes hours to get a three-source concurrence, and of late I have had to go with just the one source which has always been in the consensus: The New York Times. Every day for the past year, their reported numbers have been correct, and that is indeed a major accomplishment.
Disappointingly, the Pennsylvania Department of Health numbers have become so riddled with errors and omissions that they are by and large unusable. Regrettably, I had to stop including them beginning in late February, and that means there is no longer the possibility of a three-source agreement.
I will continue, and will use the most accurate data available, but if either of my last two sources dries up like the others, it will lead to the end of our project.
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I have struggled most of the month to find replacements for three of our original five sources of confirmed data, which have either reduced the frequency of their reports, reduced the number of counties they track (mostly the rural counties) or stopped tracking altogether.
It takes hours to get a three-source concurrence, and of late I have had to go with just the one source which has always been in the consensus: The New York Times. Every day for the past year, their reported numbers have been correct, and that is indeed a major accomplishment.
Disappointingly, the Pennsylvania Department of Health numbers have become so riddled with errors and omissions that they are by and large unusable. Regrettably, I had to stop including them beginning in late February, and that means there is no longer the possibility of a three-source agreement.
I will continue, and will use the most accurate data available, but if either of my last two sources dries up like the others, it will lead to the end of our project.