Raising Arizona

States are reopening. Memorial Day is typically a day with many gatherings. Are we seeing that in the data? Here’s the data from AZ.

New Daily Cases and Current Hospitalizations for AZ

You can see a huge spike in cases in June. Some of this is from more testing, but hospitalizations have followed.

At this point, Banner Health is saying that are running out of ICU space.

The question is…. do they stay open in AZ if they do reach capacity?

If at First You Don’t Succeed, Revise, Revise Again

I’ve posted a few times about OC COVID-19 results the last few weeks. One of the issues is the data has HUGE (YUGE perhaps?) revisions on the number of tests well after the fact.

Here is a chart showing the number of tests reported by he day I downloaded the data.

OC Testing Numbers by Reporting Date

Now, I get that if I look at data on May 25th, the last couple of days may need revisions. But on May 29th, the data for May 15th (2 weeks!!!) was revised up by 40%.

The same thing happened on May 19th. That data was revised on June 4th, two weeks after the fact.

I have no idea what is going on with these major revisions, but it makes some analyses hard.