Rise then dip in Texas totals from March 9-23

[chrisalcantara]

I noticed in the dataset the CDC reported Texas had 19 travel-associated cases on March 9, then 34 on March 16, then 23 on March 23. I thought this was an anomaly because how can the number of new cases drop?

I spoke with a spokesman, and he told me Texas had double counted what they sent to the CDC. Would it be possible to get the correct number for Texas in the March 16 update? Thanks!

[majohansson]

Thanks for finding this and clarifying. I added a comment to this effect in the README. It's not clear exactly what may have happened as even accounting for double reporting, the cases would have been 19 -> 17 -> 23. Certainly many similar mistakes will occur across the many surveillance systems being captured here. The intent is to make the reported data available, with all its inherent limitations. If someone would like to post versions with further cleaning/correction and details on that, we would be happy to make that available here or link to it.

[chrisalcantara]

Thanks for investigating this. It's still curious to see how the cases dipped from 19 to 17 then back up to 23. Were two cases mislabeled prior to the March 16 update?

We spoke to the Texas Department of Health, and they said they're working on providing us the numbers they reported to ArboNET.