Rebecca Lai, Alex Lemonides, Eleanor Lutz, Allison McCann, Richard A. Frequently Asked Questions About the Covid DataД«y Jordan Allen, Sarah Almukhtar, Aliza Aufrichtig, Anne Barnard, Matthew Bloch, Sarah Cahalan, Weiyi Cai, Julia Calderone, Keith Collins, Matthew Conlen, Lindsey Cook, Gabriel Gianordoli, Amy Harmon, Rich Harris, Adeel Hassan, Jon Huang, Danya Issawi, Danielle Ivory, K.K.The Times uses an adjustment method to vary the number of days included in an average to remove these irregularities.Д®arly Coronavirus Outbreaks Cases in nursing homes, prisons and other places For agencies that do not report data every day, variation in the schedule on which cases or deaths are reported, such as around holidays, can also cause an irregular pattern in averages. The Times is excluding these anomalies from seven-day averages when possible. Governments often revise data or report a single-day large increase in cases or deaths from unspecified days without historical revisions, which can cause an irregular pattern in the daily reported figures. Probable cases and deaths count individuals who meet criteria for other types of testing, symptoms and exposure, as developed by national and local governments. Population data from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics.Д¬onfirmed cases and deaths, which are widely considered to be an undercount of the true toll, are counts of individuals whose coronavirus infections were confirmed by a molecular laboratory test. Data for Brazil comes from the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University.

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