No 3/21 update?
svfnyc opened this issue · comments
As of 9:51pm....
As noted on the website: "Data Delay: Due to delays in receiving and processing data from New York State, some data from the past week will be lower than expected. Data for those days will be updated when we receive it. Data will not be updated today, Monday, March 22." As noted in a previous issue, these data transmission issues are resulting in abnormal daily values.
Yes, can someone from the city please issue a press release explaining in detail what is happening here, whether this data is even still being collected, and if and or when it will be made public again? This pandemic is still raging and we've gone now 3 days without any public data and several days before that with only incomplete data, and to my knowledge no public statements from any officials beyond what you referred to on the website, nor any news media coverage that I've seen.
This needs to be raised in the Mayor's daily press conference tomorrow.
Indeed. Any intel about what's going on?
I just sent a tweet to the Mayor and the city Health Commissioner, and tagged NY1.
Thank you every one for taking interest and action on this. I hope something is made public about this soon by the city. I only know of it being acknowledged at all outside the NYC DOH COVID data Github site in this Twitter exchange with NYC Council Health Chair Mark Levine, who said on the evening of Sunday March 21 that it would likely be resolved on Tuesday March 23 (today), which it obviously has not been: https://twitter.com/MarkLevineNYC/status/1373817694743633922
I want to add that I believe the people running this website do an excellent job and I'm sure they are doing all they can to restore it to full service. I offer them all my gratitude for all their great work.
I hope today is the day that BOTH this website is fully restored with backfilled data AND the city government issues a press release with a full explanation of this truly unacceptable and inexplicable situation. And I hope the media actually covers it.
But I also want to add that it is very concerning that this site is down esp. right now when data over the last week available in the Milestones section of the NYC DOH website (which WAS actually updated on 3/23 and 3/24 after 2 days without updates and while rest of website was not updated), along with data at the state's NY Forward website for NYC, BOTH indicate the possible start of a concerning trend where despite cases/positivity being stable albeit at a very high level, both new hospitalizations AND total number hospitalized have begun to rise. Even with high but stable cases and positivity, hospitalizations should NOT rise while an ever growing percentage of the most vulnerable are being vaccinated UNLESS the new variants that we know may now constitute a majority of new cases are resulting in greater overall virulence for the disease. Hopefully this is a short term trend that will quickly reverse itself.
It's also concerning that all of this is happening at the same time that the Mayor has opened up a new opt-in period for in-person school instruction AND announced the reopening in-person of government offices employing 80,000 people WITHOUT mandated masks at work.
In looking for news about this situation on Twitter today I found this article, and though I question the narrative it is presenting based on my own familiarity with the city data, I do think the longer this data blackout goes on the more people will start to circulate conspiracy theories that this is an intentional attempt to mislead people:
I just tuned in to the mayor's press conference and it sounds like this has been fixed and we should see the site updated this afternoon. Fingers crossed.
Yes, fingers crossed. That is what De Blasio said? Any further explanation of this bizarre and unacceptable situation? Any acknowledgment in the apparent rising trend in hospitalizations despite plateaued cases and positivity, which truly is an ominous trend?
Looks like the site was updated 5 minutes ago....
Yes, thanks to site administrators.
BIG THANKS!
Hi all, thanks for your interest. Updates have resumed and our documentation has been updated to address this gap.