Update On Previous DHHS Data Error Story – DHHS Corrects Data Error – Now Actually High Transmission According To CDC – 8/5/2022

Background

You may remember that on 7/22 there was a seemingly huge jump in covid positive hospital admissions

On 7/29 we posted an update which included multiple responses from DHHS and other government officials.

We maintained, despite resistance that there was likely either an error or it was a data dump (large amounts of data dropped at once despite actually taking place over longer time).

DHHS Corrects Historical Data

Now when you look at the DHHS dashboard, it also contains the following note added August 1 acknowledging the error and saying it has been corrected

“NOTE: August 1, 2022: Due to a data source error, COVID-19 hospital admissions per 100k Residents (7-day total) appeared elevated from July 22-July 28, 2022. On August 1, 2022, a historical data correction was made to amend this error.”

Past Predictions

You can see here we predicted what ended up being the actual issue and helped catch this error by DHHS.

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County Covid Levels Still Climbing

Despite this correction, the covid admissions in the county are still climbing and earlier this week we still hit the “High” category on this (which rolled up to make our county “High”).

8/4 – CDC Updates to “High” For County

On 8/4 at the Thursday evening CDC update, Montgomery County went to the “High” Category

DHHS Tweet Responses Acknowledging Correction

Reference Previous Posts On Topic

7/29 Update Responses From County Regarding Post “MOCO DHHS Says The County Has High Community Transmission, CDC Says Otherwise – Who Is Right? What Does It mean?”
MOCO DHHS Says The County Has High Community Transmission, CDC Says Otherwise – Who Is Right? What Does It mean?

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