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Reduced counts in U.S. cases and deaths are the result of states and territories not reporting the information for some or all of the weekend. Those states and territories are: Alaska, Colorado, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Guam, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, Northern Mariana Islands, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, U.S. Virgin Islands, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. Typically, these states" Monday updates include the weekend totals.

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Alabama did not report as expected on October 27 and November 10, 2022. This was due to upgrades to their case surveillance system. In effect, two weeks’ worth of data was published in the most recent week.

As of November 15, 2022, Alaska non-resident cases and deaths to be held stale. See additional information here: https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19/issues/6240

On October 26, 2022, the CDC Data Tracker, which is the CRC's source for cases for Nebraska, reconfigured their reporting to remove probable cases and add these to their confirmed cases total. This resulted in the cumulative number of cases decreasing by 8099 for reasons that are not clear.

On November 2, 2022, North Carolina showed a spike in deaths due to death certificate review. This is their standard monthly publication of deaths identified via this method.

On November 2, 2022, the HHS Community Profile Report removed 155 deaths from their “Unassigned, North Dakota” entry for reasons that are not clear.

As of November 2, 2022, Washington has moved to reporting once per week (Wednesdays).

On October 21 and October 26, 2022, New York showed a spike in deaths data. These were due to a death certificate review process which has been completed. A total of 560 ‘older’ deaths were included in those two days. The state has indicated they do not expect older deaths to populate their reporting in the coming days/weeks. More details here: https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19/issues/6200

On October 18, 2022, North Carolina did not release a weekly update due to technical issues. This has resulted in two weeks’ worth of data being published this past Wednesday, October 26, 2022. More info may be found here: https://www.newsobserver.com/news/coronavirus/article267560152.html

Tom Green County, TX has discontinued their independent reporting. Consequently, we have pivoted our reporting to match that of the Texas state dashboard. To ensure there weren’t inconsistencies, we replaced our time series with the historical data published by the Texas dashboard team. More details here: https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19/issues/6183