New York City Source Issue March 21-23

[CSSEGISandData]

Hello all,

Data for all five boroughs in New York City were stale for March 21, 22, and 23 as noted in #3859. Our source publishes their data to a New York City Health Department GitHub Repository. The README in their repository has the following note:

"Important: Update on March 24, 2021

As indicated in commit notes from 3/19 and 3/20, there were technical issues in the data transmission from New York State to New York City. This resulted in counts that were lower than expected for several days. While this transmission error was being fixed, data updates were paused for 3/21, 3/22, and 3/23. Data updated on 3/24 include backfill for days with low counts and days with no updates. Differences in counts in cumulative files from 3/20 to 3/24 reflect events that have happened over a broad recent time period and should not be interpreted as events that have happened since the previous update. As always, data are preliminary and subject to change, and dates are backfilled as additional data come in."

That yesterday's update contained NYC data from March 21-24 is the reason for the spike seen for the state of New York as noted in #3865. We're trying to obtain clarity from the health department to see if we can obtain data for a back distribution.

[hdschulte]

Have you made any headway on backdistribution?