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1/ Last week, on July 11, the city celebrated its first day without any new COVID-19 deaths in New York City.
As of today, data shows there were actually thirteen confirmed deaths caused by COVID-19 on July 11.
Here’s the data issue with “zero” deaths.
https://github.com/nychealth/coronavirus-data/blob/master/case-hosp-death.csv
As of today, data shows there were actually thirteen confirmed deaths caused by COVID-19 on July 11.
Here’s the data issue with “zero” deaths.
https://github.com/nychealth/coronavirus-data/blob/master/case-hosp-death.csv
2/ It takes time for @nycHealthy to receive reports and confirm each person who died had a positive test for COVID-19 or had COVID-19 listed as the cause of death on a death certificate. https://github.com/nychealth/coronavirus-data#reporting-on-covid-19-deaths
3/ We’ve found deaths for any given day take about *five days* to level out after they’re first reported.
That’s why we mark recent data as incomplete on our tracker. https://projects.thecity.nyc/2020_03_covid-19-tracker/
That’s why we mark recent data as incomplete on our tracker. https://projects.thecity.nyc/2020_03_covid-19-tracker/
4/ Here’s an example from each day of the last full week of June.
5/ Seeing some days initially reported with no deaths does reflect that fewer people are dying of COVID-19, but we won’t be certain of a day with no deaths until after the fact. https://www.thecity.nyc/coronavirus/2020/7/13/21323655/day-without-covid-deaths-in-new-york-premature
6/ That said, we will continue to track this data and keep you as informed as we are.
You can follow that data here: https://projects.thecity.nyc/2020_03_covid-19-tracker/?_ga=2.32010430.1471635751.1595238615-1889861576.1568193897
You can follow that data here: https://projects.thecity.nyc/2020_03_covid-19-tracker/?_ga=2.32010430.1471635751.1595238615-1889861576.1568193897
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