Rational Ground by Justin Hart

Rational Ground by Justin Hart

Case Surveillance File Update!

Subscribers get the detailed deets on the CDC's master file of record

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Justin Hart
Jan 06, 2022
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We’re now up to 681,857 deaths “verified” into the CDC’s Case Surveillance File including part of December. For a quick explanation of the CSF see this article. Here are the topline numbers. Subscribers get some really good drill downs on the whole data and XLS exports as well - down below.

Some quick notes:

  • Medcond indicates a case was noted with a medical condition.

  • Deaths (w/Hosp) indicates a case with a death noted and a hospitalization noted. In other words more than half of all deaths have no record of a hospitalization.

  • Some of the differentials are based on the inconsistency of data between states. Some states collect and send in a lot of data. Others do not.

  • The last 3 columns: Deaths / hosp rate (rate of deaths with a noted hospitalizations) & Deaths /ICU rate (rate of deaths with a noted ICU).

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