Template talk:COVID-19 pandemic data/United States medical cases chart

Get rid of % in parentheses?
It's really hard to keep these up to date which the historical numbers are still getting updated. Seatto23 (talk) 19:48, 5 March 2020 (UTC)


 * I disagree. It's not much of a burden.  Historical numbers are pretty locked down now anyway. dudzcom (talk) 19:03, 13 March 2020 (UTC)
 * The "% in parentheses" is the daily growth rate--maybe the most important single thing to know about the pandemic.CountMacula (talk) 15:35, 19 March 2020 (UTC)
 * I was having trouble figure how you get pere net age of the number of deaths and cases added on the chart, can you give me and equation for it please? Rider0101 (talk) 20:18, 26 March 2020 (UTC)

Would be nice to convert this table


To something more like this. Fits better especially as time goes on. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 02:28, 7 March 2020 (UTC)


 * Agree. Is there a wiki syntax for that? dudzcom (talk) 04:37, 14 March 2020 (UTC)


 * Yes within a week or so, a graph like that will be needed. Note however that we have no recovery information. The states are not reporting that. Seatto23 (talk) 08:41, 14 March 2020 (UTC)


 * I think both are worth keeping like with the Chinese counterparts. Alexiscoutinho (talk) 12:59, 14 March 2020 (UTC)


 * I completely agree that the recoveries must be shown after the existing cases. I prefer to sandwich the deaths in the middle. For public health dynamics the existing cases is the most important thing and becomes impossible to see clearly when recoveries go up making it look like it's getting much worse than it is actually getting. I have tried to convince people, so far little luck. But let's join at the talk of the main template that is creating these charts. Gschadow (talk) 15:36, 14 March 2020 (UTC)


 * I think the day-by-day data for recoveries should be added to this chart. It's too difficult to tell from the graphic that recovery data is there at all. UpdateNerd (talk) 08:10, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

Remove year from date column to save space?
Change "2020-01-21" to "1-21" etc, and just note all dates are for 2020. The would reduce the width a bit. --- Another Believer ( Talk ) 02:08, 8 March 2020 (UTC)


 * It would make the chart not standalone though (no way to know the year without checking the article online), so, not good. I once proposed to display a 2 digit year in the Chinese chart, but people didn't like it. I could remove the dummy padding in the 'none' width column if more people complain. We could also propose a padding change in Template_talk:Bar_box since nobody is seeing it. The chart isn't too wide anyways, it's even using the thin barwidth... Alexiscoutinho (talk) 22:00, 13 March 2020 (UTC)

Is this repatriated + non-repatriated or only non-repatriated?
GyozaDumpling Matthewberns Rmaloney3 We need to decide what numbers are in this table. Right now the table has only NON-repatriated numbers by day. That is because at the moment non-repatriated cases is the only referenced number of US cases by day that we have. We have that in the Timeline Table of NON-repatriated cases. All (or mostly) those cases are referenced with an archived url and now that states are posting numbers, we are trying to use the official state numbers. We don't have a table for the repatriated cases (yet) nor cruise ship cases (yet). I get GyozaDumplings comment "Again, there is no advantage to restricting this list to non-repatriated patients. It only overcomplicates future calculations as cases rise. If anyone undos this edit without quantifiable justification, it will be redone." But where do we have those repatriated + non-repatriated numbers by day? Those numbers do not exist at the moment. We can't be taking numbers off the Johns Hopkins CSSE or worse the https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ site. That is not referenced. Seatto23 (talk) 20:30, 11 March 2020 (UTC)


 * My vote is to keep this at non-repatriated cases until we get a table with the repatriated + cruise ship numbers with references. Other option is to go to CDC numbers but those are really lagging behind the state's official numbers right now. Also I wasn't archiving the CDC website every day so I don't know if we have a record. Seatto23 (talk) 20:30, 11 March 2020 (UTC)


 * Or non-repatriated cases (in the timeline table) + non-repatriated from CDC website. That would mean adding 46 to all the bars in the graph. But if we do that, let's make that clear in the footnote so it is clear where the numbers come from. Would be good then to add a table that documents the number of repatriated cases (in additional tables section). That table won't need to be updated often but will need a archived version of the CDC website that documents the numbers we are using. Seatto23 (talk) 20:48, 11 March 2020 (UTC)


 * I vote to rely on the sources for the constituent states. If we are not going to base the numbers off of the states table, then we should remove the phrase "Sources: Official reports from state health officials. See Timeline Table for the sources."  I suggest we keep the annotation, and rely on the state's numbers. dudzcom (talk) 04:51, 14 March 2020 (UTC)

Timeline Table
At the bottom of the chart it links to Timeline Table on the page for the pandemic in the US, however such Timeline Table doesn't exist. This should probably be fixed because of right now the chart simply doesn't have a source in it.Poklane 00:11, 13 March 2020 (UTC)


 * Looks like it was fixed. Link works for me. Seatto23 (talk) 08:42, 14 March 2020 (UTC)

Numbers are shown for active cases, but not for deaths. I suggest showing the numbers for deaths through time, as well as active cases. Since data for active cases is uncertain due to lack of available testing, deaths are less likely to be uncertain, and given the estimates so far for death rate, the mortality rate curve gives us an alternate way of estimating the active cases -- if the number of deaths is higher than the number of active cases (and the estimated mortality rate) implies, this would suggest many cases are being under-reported, for example. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 165.225.216.220 (talk) 01:28, 18 March 2020 (UTC)

Parentheses
For some reason, this list prints out with the number of cases followed by a number in parentheses. This is not explained (it is presumably the change in number of cases), and it makes the column impossible to import into a spreadsheet. This should be corrected: the change in number should be a new column (and labelled) Geoffrey.landis (talk) 21:57, 14 March 2020 (UTC)


 * Remove/substitute the parentheses in a text editor. If you prefer, copy the source instead and clean it up with a few substitutions. Alexiscoutinho (talk) 02:42, 15 March 2020 (UTC)

Table seems to be filling
The current cases for each row take up a percentage of a column, representing a progressbar. However, this is an epidemic, not a program or anything else with a definite end, so why is a progressbar-like style being used to represent the cases in comparison to previous days? CoronavirusPlagueDoctor (talk) 02:49, 15 March 2020 (UTC)


 * A stacked bar chart is one of the ways this information is typically presented. Its resemblance to other bar-related idioms shouldn't be that confusing from context. shuffdog (talk) 06:11, 15 March 2020 (UTC)

WikiProject COVID-19
I've created WikiProject COVID-19 as a temporary or permanent WikiProject and invite editors to use this space for discussing ways to improve coverage of the ongoing 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic. Please bring your ideas to the project/talk page. Stay safe, -- Another Believer ( Talk ) 18:19, 15 March 2020 (UTC)

Reporting very early daily numbers?
Right now the template shows a single new case for March 17. In recent days a new day's number hasn't been added until later in a given day. Has there been a discussion about when this should take place? I can't see one. The following morning would seem reasonable to me. Otherwise the low percentage increase based on known-to-be-incomplete totals seems misleading. --Amcbride (talk) 16:22, 17 March 2020 (UTC)

I agree with this. I saw the small growth earlier today and was very surprised. Now I see why. A daily update time would be good. - 69.59.71.122 (talk) 19:36, 18 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Yes, the partial data is misleading unless the reader gets a note to the effect that it is not the whole day's data. I would think that some kind of inline timestamp, visible to the reader, might hit the spot.  Or just wait until the day's data is final.CountMacula (talk) 14:02, 19 March 2020 (UTC)

Semi-protection?
Would this template be appropriate for semi-protection? I'm concerned about edits from, for example, this user. --Amcbride (talk) 21:39, 17 March 2020 (UTC)

Please add the numerical history of the total deaths
Like what has been done to the cases chart for Italy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:2019%E2%80%9320_coronavirus_pandemic_data/Italy_medical_cases_chart CountMacula (talk) 19:54, 18 March 2020 (UTC)


 * I just added this to the chart. See the 2020 coronavirus pandemic in the United States talk page as well. Bluegreenmagenta (talk) 23:43, 18 March 2020 (UTC)


 * The form of it looks perfect, but I don't know anything about whether the numbers are correct. But has reverted your edit, with some obscure mention of vandalism.  I don't think they understood what they were reverting though.CountMacula (talk) 13:55, 19 March 2020 (UTC)


 * I first reverted what I think was numbers-vandalism from User:Nt18123. Then I noticed that the many smaller numbers changes that User:Bluegreenmagenta introduced took the template out of agreement with the by-state time table that I think this is supposed to stay in agreement with, so I reverted that as well. (It looked like they were based on a previous version of the table, before retroactive corrections had been made.) It would have been better if I'd taken the time to figure out exactly what User:Bluegreenmagenta was trying to do, and kept the good parts of their edit while changing the numbers back to match the table. I didn't mean to associate those edits with vandalism. --Amcbride (talk) 16:02, 19 March 2020 (UTC)


 * Completely understandable. I'll try again with the latest numbers in the table. FYI the death numbers are already in the template (the black bars), but are not labelled in the columns to the right. The values I am using for the deaths are the values already in the template. Bluegreenmagenta (talk) 16:32, 19 March 2020 (UTC)


 * I updated it again. Please use a rich diff (I recommend WinMerge) to track the changes I made. (1) I took into account the latest updates to the numbers (and updated the % changes accordingly) and (2) as mentioned above, I used the already-existing death numbers in the furthest-right column.


 * All cool. Solid improvement to the article, bgm. BTW, I asked for this edit on Feb 20, on the talk page of the main article.  Nobody opposed it, but there wasn't much discussion, and the request was soon deleted.  Sadly, the wheels of wiki turn exceeding slow.CountMacula (talk) 17:40, 19 March 2020 (UTC)


 * . I understand now, Bluegreenmagenta. Thanks for your improvements and patience. --Amcbride (talk) 20:59, 19 March 2020 (UTC)

Consensus on matching the by-state table, right?
I think we have a consensus, based on edit summaries and what's implicit here, that this template should match the by-state non-repatriated cases table further down the article. That's where all the references are. But I'm not sure that's been clearly stated here, and edits are often made that don't match the table. So I'm starting this new section to state this consensus explicitly and for any potential discussion on this point. --Amcbride (talk) 00:09, 19 March 2020 (UTC)

Active cases vs. total cases
The chart claims to represent the number of active cases, but it is stated elsewhere on this talk page that the states are not reporting recoveries, and this seems to be consistent with the data template https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:2019%E2%80%9320_coronavirus_pandemic_data/United_States_medical_cases Would it be better to use a label like "Total cases"? And are the deaths being subtracted from the total cases? I'm thinking there should be an explanatory note attached to the chart. And should it be labeled "total cases - deaths"? Attn:


 * I agree. Until recoveries per day are included in the main table, "Active cases" is inaccurate. "Total cases - deaths" works, though I would suggest "Active cases and recoveries". --Amcbride (talk) 21:05, 19 March 2020 (UTC)


 * I went ahead and changed it to "Active cases and recoveries". --Amcbride (talk) 01:48, 20 March 2020 (UTC)
 * I didn't understand the numbers in the template {{Medical cases chart/Row|2020-03-19|137||11913|||11,913|+48%|172|+41%|factor=50|numwidth=mtmt}}
 * If 172 are the deaths, what does the 137 stand for ?--Bouzinac (talk) 06:45, 20 March 2020 (UTC)

Active cases and inclusion of deaths
The chart uses the total number of cases for its "Active cases and recovery" bars and the number of deaths for the "Deaths" bar. However, if I'm not mistaken, the numbers used in "Active cases and recoveries"-bar isn't "Active cases and recoveries" but "Total cases". As such, I've reduced the number of "Active cases and recoveries" but the number of shown in "Deaths". --YannickFran (talk) 10:08, 20 March 2020 (UTC)

2020-02-21 is out of order
Shouldn't the data be ordered by date? ~EdGl !  14:21, 22 March 2020 (UTC)
 * I just noticed this too, but confused because the data don't seem to fit for that date (2 deaths before the first confirmed death in US on 29 Feb ) Haltri (talk) 14:32, 22 March 2020 (UTC)
 * This error seems to have been introduced by, logged as "03:24, 22 March 2020‎ Narkstraws talk contribs‎ 4,819 bytes +100‎ this fixes it with the early percentages" Narkstraws, could you please sort this out?CountMacula (talk) 02:41, 23 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Oh I'm sorry if I made that mistake. It was unintentional. Thank you for catching it! (Narkstraws (talk) 02:38, 25 March 2020 (UTC))

Report differences and percentage changes in deaths column?
Someone has inserted a column showing the differences in the daily numbers of deaths, whereas that information is obvious from the cumulative number each day. The more important number is the daily relative change expressed as a percentage, as one can see at a glance whether the rate of change is increasing or decreasing. When I say someone has inserted the difference, that's not quite right, as they did a poor job of it, the information being incomplete, and errors being introduced. It looks to me like the added column is mainly clutter and a source of errors. I think we should remove it. Please discuss.CountMacula (talk) 02:16, 23 March 2020 (UTC)


 * Looks like Tolea93 added the daily numbers of deaths. I checked some other countries' pages and there doesn't seem to be a consensus on whether to include them or not; some do and some don't. I don't care much one way or the other, but if we include the numbers then they certainly need to be accurate. Mark Taylor (talk) 19:46, 23 March 2020 (UTC)


 * Seeing no objections, I made the change, and corrected three errors.CountMacula (talk) 19:56, 23 March 2020 (UTC)
 * I see that the host page 2020 coronavirus pandemic in the United States has a separate bar chart of deaths per day, and it includes the numbers, another reason not to put the deaths per day in this chart. CountMacula (talk) 23:25, 23 March 2020 (UTC)

clean up my chart for Oregon?
Hi, can someone look at my Oregon chart and tell me why the bar width is so minimal? I stole it from New York and substituted the numbers. tedder (talk) 18:23, 23 March 2020 (UTC)


 * This is controlled by the "divisor" parameter. Mark Taylor (talk) 19:41, 23 March 2020 (UTC)
 * I've set `divisor` to 1 and it still only fills about half of the width. tedder (talk) 19:48, 23 March 2020 (UTC)

apparent discrepancies in death counts
Do I understand that our process implies that this chart Template:2019–20 coronavirus pandemic data/United States medical cases chart is supposed to agree with Template:2019–20 coronavirus pandemic data/United States medical cases? The death counts disagree at several points. Shall I or someone change this chart to make it agree with Template:2019–20 coronavirus pandemic data/United States medical cases?CountMacula (talk) 20:32, 23 March 2020 (UTC)


 * You're right. We should update this chart as the table gets retroactively updated. Feel free to fix any discrepancies like that. --Amcbride (talk) 21:12, 23 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Okay, I fixed the death counts, but I didn't check the number of cases, so somebody should still go over the cases column. CountMacula (talk) 23:19, 23 March 2020 (UTC)


 * The sources are different on both, so making adjustments to one based on the other may invalidate the info. --Super Goku V (talk) 18:29, 28 March 2020 (UTC)

What's the point of a documentation page?
It is currently pretty empty and is duping some Contents' entries. Alexiscoutinho (talk) 21:24, 26 March 2020 (UTC)

That "Last 15 days" castrated chart is horrible. Let's do this instead:
Add scroll-bars and a "(show all)" button, so it's like the state-list chart, except defaulting to the bottom rather than the top of the chart. That way the entire timeline will still be there, but we need no longer worry about its vertical size overwhelming the article.--2601:444:380:8C00:459B:B2B0:DC04:92DF (talk) 02:04, 28 March 2020 (UTC) 

✅ make a show all button -Fungchilong (talk) 00:32, 5 April 2020 (UTC)

Does not work as supposed from user perspective
Default view shows last 15 days. fine. But: if I press "March", I get the data from March 1 through March 23 followed by April 1 through April 6? What's the point in not showing all of March? --77.7.48.30 (talk) 07:41, 8 April 2020 (UTC)
 * There seems to be a JavaScript bug. -- Beland (talk) 12:37, 5 May 2020 (UTC)

Where are classes explained? I want to update Help:Table
I notice there are a lot of classes used in this table. Where are those classes explained? I would like more people to be able to use those classes in tables.

I would like to describe those classes at Help:Table. Here are the classes used in this table that are not explained at Help:Table:

class="barbox tright" mw-customtoggle-l15 mw-customtoggle-jan mw-customtoggle-jan-l15 mw-customtoggle-feb mw-customtoggle-feb-l15 mw-customtoggle-mar mw-customtoggle-mar-l15 mw-customtoggle-apr mw-customtoggle-apr-l15 mw-customcollapsible-l15 --Timeshifter (talk) 11:11, 10 April 2020 (UTC) PAGE ]]) 03:19, 14 April 2020 (UTC) PAGE ]]) 18:01, 14 April 2020 (UTC)
 * These classes are used for the month and "last 15 days" toggle buttons. They are specific to Medical cases chart and shouldn't be at Help:Table. See mw:Manual:Collapsible elements. --Ahecht ([[User talk:Ahecht|TALK
 * Thanks. I guess the CSS comes along with the templates. I linked to some more table-related template info and categories in the "See also" section of Help:Table. --Timeshifter (talk) 17:20, 14 April 2020 (UTC)
 * There's not really CSS attached to those classes, they're just used by the javascript behind the collapse function. --Ahecht ([[User talk:Ahecht|TALK

Rearranging chart
I think this chart would read better from left to right (Deaths - Active Cases - Recoveries) rather than (deaths - recoveries - active cases). This would allow us to more easily visually remove recoveries from the data to judge the negative impact. It also shows a range from worst cases to best cases, with recoveries on the outer edge of the bars. See the China chart at the top of the talk page for an example. Some thing (talk) 02:13, 12 April 2020 (UTC)

Fix the chart
The deaths/recoveries/cases bars are showing as three vertical bars instead of combined like for other countries. Therefore it is impossible to visually gauge the day-to-day changes in deaths and recoveries. Please fix this. 93.136.71.58 (talk) 00:19, 17 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Agreed. If this was done intentionally, it's a bad decision, making the chart much less user-friendly.  If it's a mistake, it does need to be fixed.... 70.49.241.247 (talk) 01:29, 17 April 2020 (UTC)

Why was the daily number and percentage change in deaths removed? —BlackTerror (talk) 03:53, 17 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Yes, what's going on here? Up to about 48 hours ago, this was a reliable and useful graphic.  Now, it's consistently incomplete and/or very awkwardly formatted.  I know everyone here is a volunteer ... but what happened?  64.231.191.238 (talk) 06:13, 17 April 2020 (UTC)
 * I agree, the death numbers should not be removed. it seems this has been done earlier today to make it visually attractive (some auto-scaling seems to shift the bars) - but i think the entire graphic should be widened to accommodate for the large numbers in active cases and deaths --Lukas6283 (talk) 07:25, 17 April 2020 (UTC)


 * I also agree; the numbers of deaths were useful to have in this chart. FWIW they still exist in the corresponding charts for every other country (every other one I've looked at anyway). 188.108.183.102 (talk) 07:33, 17 April 2020 (UTC)
 * i took the liberty to fix this again. -Lukas6283 (talk) 07:37, 17 April 2020 (UTC)


 * The numbers are misleading. See this website. There are 37,079 deaths in the US now but this chart is showing only 32k. What actually went wrong? Aman Kumar Goel (Talk) 12:51, 18 April 2020 (UTC)
 * The numbers in the chart are representing the officially reported cases. arcgis reports them as they come in. To have a comparable graph we want to rely on specific and regulated reports of the numbers - after all, wikipedia is not a news outlet (we had this discussion on several other pages to the COVID-19 crisis - e.g. Germany or the UK). Regarding your question: someone removed the column with the deaths altogether and i merely moved them back into the graphic. - Lukas6283 (talk) 12:59, 18 April 2020 (UTC)
 * But the numbers aren't matching what is being reported on the main Wikipedia COVID-19 page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%E2%80%9320_coronavirus_pandemic    Of course, that main page is updated frequently, and I would not expect the totals to match at all times.  However, the end-of-day totals should match, and for the past few days, they have not.  I mean, by several THOUSAND cases.


 * Whatever the end of day total on that page is for the US (today at close of day, the number of cases is 739,988; the number of deaths is 38,928) should be reflected on this page. If that page is wrong, it needs to be corrected.  But the pages must tally ... otherwise, what's the point?  Why do all the work if we can't trust the end result?   70.49.241.247 (talk) 04:09, 19 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Agree with those above. The day totals are off by many thousands for the last two days and it's incorrect information. Why was this changed? 96.239.98.48 (talk) 13:21, 19 April 2020 (UTC)

Another day's figures entered, and once again the numbers don't remotely agree even with the chart smack-dab directly above it on this very same page. Or with ANY of the three figures (CDC; CDC incl. probable; JHU incl. probable) for cases/deaths reported at the top of this page. Or with the numbers reported on the main Wikipedia COVID-19 page.

Yes, there are multiple sources one could use to determine the information, and sure -- that doesn't always make things easy. And yes, this is a continually evolving picture, with new information being updated constantly. But for heaven's sake, pick a lane, and have this chart and this page stick to it consistently. This ENTIRE page should be reporting on the same statistics used on the main COVID-19 pandemic page at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%E2%80%9320_coronavirus_pandemic. Anything else destroys the credibility of the page as a whole. 64.231.191.238 (talk) 06:04, 20 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Maybe can shed some light on the sources for the numbers -Lukas6283 (talk) 06:53, 20 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Are all the numbers in? Rider0101 (talk) 00:53, 21 April 20 (UTC)

Pass-through barwidth parameter
See Template talk:Medical cases chart. -- Tom N  talk/contrib 03:34, 22 April 2020 (UTC)

data missmatch
For April 19th and 20th the redundant data do not match:
 * 2020-04-19;35812;71012;750718;;;751,218;+3.6%;35,812;+4.7%
 * 2020-04-20;37455;72389;775811;;;775,663;+3.3%;37,455;+4.5%

Were there 775811 or 775663 pos. tested persons?

You could also read this as "Redundancy considered harmfull!" --Boobarkee (talk) 07:25, 22 April 2020 (UTC)


 * As nobody answers, I'd fix it. --Boobarkee (talk) 05:55, 23 April 2020 (UTC)

Date column width increase needed.
Date column width expand by 1 character, or specified non wrapping. Some times when the chart is included into other pages, the date info is line wrapped which breaks reading of chart bars. I couldn’t quickly see a fix. So I am opening up discussing ideas. Iain (talk) 05:13, 24 April 2020 (UTC)

Case in point. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_the_United_States Iain (talk) 05:17, 24 April 2020 (UTC)

Outline effect fix needed
When clicking between Jan/Feb/March/April/Last 15 days, outline boxes are left around some of the ones even when they're not selected. Can we fix this? &#123;{u&#124; Sdkb  }&#125;  talk 06:02, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Hmm, so it looks like the highlights do (for the most part) actually represent which dates are showing. It's super weird to be able to show the data for e.g. January and March but not February. And there's still super weird interaction between April and "Last 15 days"; sometimes April seems to show the whole month and sometimes it only shows the beginning, cutting out 15 days ago. I think clicking "last 15 days" should deselect all the months. &#123;{u&#124; Sdkb  }&#125;  talk 06:06, 24 April 2020 (UTC)

Add "confirmed"
It would be useful to add the word "Confirmed" before "COVID-19 cases" in the title of this. There are unquestionably more cases than the number in this graph; this is just the cases that have been confirmed by lab testing. Yes, that's in a footnote, but it should be right in the title (since the title is, as written, wrong. This is not the number of cases; it is the number of confirmed cases). Geoffrey.landis (talk) 15:17, 6 May 2020 (UTC)

Too wide
Can we make this narrower so that it doesn't interfere with the table of contents at COVID-19 pandemic in the United States? Thanks, &#123;{u&#124; Sdkb  }&#125;  talk 00:34, 28 May 2020 (UTC)

Error in death total for July 15
The table form of this chart lists the total deaths up to July 15 as 126286, while this chart gives the number as 126826 (digits reversed). The table's data adds up so I think the lower number is correct, while the chart is in error. 68.7.103.137 (talk) 16:48, 16 July 2020 (UTC)

rearrange bars in chart to: active cases - recoveries - deaths?
Suggestion: rearrange the bars, put active cases first, followed by recoveries (old active cases) and last: deaths.

By putting active cases first it will be easy to see if the number of active goes up or down.

Uwappa (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 06:56, 12 August 2020 (UTC)

Incorrect death count and refusal to accept corrections
The death count is 10,000 lower than what is the lowest conservative estimate cited by Wikipedia. When attempting to correct this, the author in charge of updating the metrics undoes any edits to this effect. They are also not responding to what I've found to be several people bringing the chart's deficiencies to their attention on their talk page. We're currently sitting at <173,000 deaths, but per the chart we've only just broken 160. What is happening? , what are you doing? Zhomron (talk) 16:44, 20 August 2020 (UTC)

Cfr. e.g. Cumulative confirmed COVID-19 deaths (173,177 for today).—Pietadè (talk) 18:00, 20 August 2020 (UTC)


 * The source for the data in this template is clearly listed as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:COVID-19_pandemic_data/United_States_medical_cases. It counts all officially reported deaths from all states and territories. Same for the number of reported cases.--Ondyss (talk) 20:24, 21 August 2020 (UTC)

Last 15 days button interferes with Aug and Sep cases
If I click the button for the last 15 days, I get the cases for the last 15 days. If I click the August button in addition to the last 15 days button, I see every case in August except for the cases in the last 15 days. Cases in September are not affected, but they are hidden if I click the September button. I suspect this is not intentional. 2604:2000:69D9:B800:C035:67C3:3C:C04D (talk) 02:54, 8 September 2020 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 29 November 2020
2020-11-27;251268;8041239;12827533

should be

2020-11-28;251268;8041239;12827533 Rebzdu (talk) 16:15, 29 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Red question icon with gradient background.svg Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. where in the article? Andrew nyr  talk  contribs  05:18, 14 December 2020 (UTC)
 * ✔️. ◢  Ganbaruby!   (Say hi!) 03:51, 17 December 2020 (UTC)

Percentage or absolute option for new infections?
I started a discussion on that topic here Project COVID-19, Medical cases charts - change type. My personal opinion is that absolute change display suits much better in an epidemic's second wave. But also the status quo ante (percentage) should be kept here until some agreement is reached (locally or possibly a consensus in linked discussion). -- Kohraa Mondel (talk) 15:16, 3 December 2020 (UTC)

January displays 2020 and 2021 data
If you click January, it displays 2020 and 2021 figures. This is a problem on ALL the country tables. Anyone have a clue on how to fix this? TarkusAB talk / contrib 13:17, 14 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Discussion at Template talk:Medical cases chart/Archive 2 TarkusAB talk / contrib 04:50, 15 January 2021 (UTC)

downloading data
Is it possible to download these data as a CSV file? CDC allows, and JHU is available at OurWorldInData.org.

Thanks. TrilliumLady (talk) 23:48, 28 December 2021 (UTC)

dead people coming back to life?
The cumulative death tally decreased from 3/13/22 to 3/14/22 with no footnote or explanation. I assume it is a correction, but based on what??? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.52.207.45 (talk) 03:53, 16 March 2022 (UTC)