No Missouri #COVID19 https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🧵" title="Thread" aria-label="Emoji: Thread"> today - the daily update posted by the Johns Hopkins team last night showed counts of confirmed cases that were largely unchanged. This makes it appear that counts have leveled off in Missouri, which is not the case. I don& #39;t want to mislead anyone. 1/6

This is not just on @HealthyLivingMo - there is reporting weirdness going on at the local & state levels here in MO. The state& #39;s COVID tabulation (see https://health.mo.gov/living/healthcondiseases/communicable/novel-coronavirus/results.php)">https://health.mo.gov/living/he... shows 883 cases in #StLouis County but the County& #39;s website shows 862 (see https://stlcogis.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapSeries/index.html?appid=6ae65dea4d804f2ea4f5d8ba79e96df1).">https://stlcogis.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapS... 2/6

The County& #39;s website also hasn& #39;t been updated since Saturday(!) morning.

The @HealthyLivingMo shows 298 cases in #StLouis City, but the City& #39;s website says 358 ( #CP_JUMP_813078">https://www.stlouis-mo.gov/government/departments/health/communicable-disease/covid-19/index.cfm #CP_JUMP_813078).">https://www.stlouis-mo.gov/governmen...

So, at various points, the state is either days ahead or behind. 3/6

The Johns Hopkins team and the New York Times are both drawing on multiple sources (can tell from the counts that they are not just using the state& #39;s website), but other projects, like The Atlantic& #39;s, are relying solely on scraping the state& #39;s website. 4/6

Basically - the data situation in Missouri is a total goat rodeo. When this is all said and done, we need to have a statewide #mopoli discussion about the existing public health surveillance systems we have and how to dramatically improve them. They were weak before this. 5/6

This is not just a failure to test for COVID, but a failure to clearly communicate between different levels of gov& #39;t. There is also a failure to clearly communicate with the public and to create reliable data systems that keep the public, the media, and researchers informed. 6/6