-On April 21, the territory's health department revised their number of cases downward, saying they had been double counting some coronavirus patients in official reports, leading to a higher number of cases reported than actually confirmed.
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-* North Dakota
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-On May 25, North Dakota announced that due to a laboratory equipment malfunction they were removing 82 positive results from their total case count, pending a retest of the samples.
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-* Connecticut
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-On May 27, Connecticut [announced](https://portal.ct.gov/Office-of-the-Governor/News/Press-Releases/2020/05-2020/Governor-Lamont-Coronavirus-Update-May-27) announced that they were removing 356 positive cases, which were determined to be duplicates, from their total case count.
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-The number of deaths reported by the state in four counties on June 1 was anomalously high and several deaths are removed in the data for June 2.
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-* Louisiana
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-On May 29, Louisiana announced that due to a technical error they would not have an update on the number of total cases that day.
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-On June 13, Louisiana reported an additional 560 backlogged cases from multiple labs and facilities from between April 25 and June 9.
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-On June 16, Louisiana reported an additional 148 backlogged cases, the majority of which date back to mid-April.
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-On June 19, Louisiana removed 1,666 duplicate and out of state cases from their total.
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-* Massachusetts
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-On April 24, Massachusetts reported the results of a large number of backlogged tests performed by Quest Diagnostics dating back to April 13, leading to a large one day jump in the number of total cases.
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-On June 30, the number of confirmed and probable deaths declined due to Massachusetts removing duplicate reports.
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-* Mississippi
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-From June 18 to 21, the Mississippi State Department of Health reported technical difficulties that prevented them from updating their case and death counts.
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-* Texas
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-On June 16, Texas reported an additional 1,476 backlogged cases from prison inmates in Anderson and Brazoria counties.
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-On July 27, state officials [changed](https://www.dshs.texas.gov/news/releases/2020/20200727.aspx) their methodology for reporting deaths to count deaths based on death certificates listing Covid-19. This change excludes deaths from people who tested positive but whose death certificate listed another cause of death, and includes people who died of Covid-19 without ever testing positive. In many counties this has led to a sudden change in the total number of deaths. Some counties continue to report deaths independently of the state and this data set uses those county counts if they are higher than the state's count for that county.
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-* Washington
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-On June 17, Washington began removing from their totals deaths where Covid-19 was not a factor, for instance homicides, overdoses, suicides and car accidents. Four deaths from King County and three from Yakima county that were due to homicide, suicide or overdose were removed.
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-On July 24, the state began to report probable deaths for the first time and at the same time removed about 50 deaths of people who tested positive for Covid-19 but died of other causes.
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-* Colorado
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-Numbers reflect the combined number of lab-confirmed and probable cases and deaths as reported by the state. On April 25th, the state revised downward the number of deaths after removing "about 29 duplicates" from the number of "probable deaths" included in the total.
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-* Hawaii
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-Numbers reflect the combined number of lab-confirmed and probable cases and deaths as reported by the state.
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-* Illinois
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-On June 8, Illinois started reporting probable cases and deaths in their data. We are including these cases and deaths in our total numbers for the state.
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-* Louisiana
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-The total cases number and total deaths number include only lab-confirmed cases and deaths. The state is reporting the deaths of probable Covid-19 cases separately from their total number of deaths statewide and in each parish, and we are including those deaths in our total number of deaths for the state.
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-* Massachusetts
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-On June 1, Massachusetts started reporting probable cases and deaths in their data. The total number of cases and deaths on that day include probable cases and deaths going back to March 1, leading to a large one day jump in the totals.
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-* Michigan
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-On June 1, we began recording probable cases and deaths reported by Michigan's county and regional health districts and adding them to the individual county and statewide totals. On June 5, the state also started to report probable cases and deaths statewide, leading to a jump in total cases and deaths.
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-* New Jersey
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-On June 25, New Jersey began reporting probable deaths, adding 1,854 probable deaths that may date back to earlier in the outbreak to their total.
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-* Ohio
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-The state reports lab-confirmed and probable cases and deaths separately at the state level but combine lab-confirmed and probable cases and deaths at the county level. Our statewide and county numbers combine both case types.
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-* Pennsylvania
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-The total cases number includes lab-confirmed and probable cases starting around April 16th.
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-* Virginia
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-The state reports lab-confirmed and probable cases and deaths separately at the state level but combine lab-confirmed and probable cases and deaths at the county level. Our statewide and county numbers combine both case types.
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-* Wisconsin
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-Wisconsin started reporting probable cases and deaths on June 10, causing a large spike in the number of cases on that day. The total number of cases that day includes 2,407 newly reported probable cases.
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-* Puerto Rico
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-Puerto Rico reports confirmed and probable cases and deaths separately. Our statewide and municipality numbers combine both case types.
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