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.

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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. #reporting-on-covid-19-deaths">https://github.com/nychealth/coronavirus-data #reporting-on-covid-19-deaths">https://github.com/nychealth...
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/">https://projects.thecity.nyc/2020_03_c...
4/ Here’s an example from each day of the last full week of June.
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