Millions missing from CDC COVID data
JUSTIN FAST • SEP 2, 2021
... "There’s no data coming out of Texas,” points out software engineer Josh Zarrabi of Atlanta’s Morehouse School of Medicine, which recently rolled out the tracking portal. “A lot of Americans should be unhappy about that. And they should say, like, ‘Wow, like, we need the data, right, because we’re missing a huge piece of the puzzle here’ ” ...
... about 1 in 5 known cases — or 7 million people — are completely missing, an NPR analysis found. On top of that, about two-thirds of the data present aren’t usable, as health care providers marked fields as “Unknown” or simply left them blank.
Most states have voluntarily sent up whatever records they have, but a handful have not. Texas, Missouri, Louisiana, West Virginia and Wyoming have each submitted less than one-tenth of their total cases. Another handful of states, including Florida, Michigan and Kentucky, have smaller but still significant gaps in their data, each completely missing over 30% of their known cases ...
https://www.wabe.org/millions-of-people-are-missing-from-cdc-covid-data-as-states-fail-to-report-case/
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