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New section on Public Health response and rename "Statistics" to "Epidemiology and Statistics"

I am planning on adding a new section on the Public Health response with subheadings on Hospital Capacity, Testing, Contact Tracing, and Modeling and Projections. Also, statistics seems to be a bit of a grab bag, does changing it to "Epidemiology and Statistics" make sense? I would then put the subheadings: Initial Exposures and Spread, Hospitalizations, and Deaths....with a bit of info and tables. Prim8acs (talk) 15:35, 7 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I agree that Stats is a heading being used to hold a grab bag of info. Perhaps the contents can be worked into the article? Especially since I converted the current data from a plain table into two charts. Be aware that every table and chart added to the article creates lots of work keeping it up to date. For the more esoteric data, at this point in the pandemic it makes sense to send readers to respected sources. EphemeralErrata (talk) 16:20, 8 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Sounds good... I have reorganized things and will add it in. Should the section "Sports Curtailed" but a subsection under "Impact" (perhaps as "Sports")? Prim8acs (talk) 16:52, 9 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Discrepancy in total cases

On 10 August the state dashboard reported 187,523 cases statewide. The county numbers also summed to 187,523. On 11 August the sum of county numbers increased by 1,213 to 188,736. The dashboard also reported a statewide increase of 1,213. However, the total reported was now 188,737. On 12 August the sum of county numbers increased by 706, the reported statewide increase was 706, and the statewide total increased by 706, thus retaining the discrepancy. As of 13 August, this discrepancy by one case still remains and has not been explained. Of note, in the dashboard demographic data, the "unknown" category appears to be calculated from the larger number. EphemeralErrata (talk) 23:32, 13 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

As of 14 August, the error has been fixed. EphemeralErrata (talk) 15:50, 14 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The error has returned on 23 August. The 22 August total was 197,895 cases. On 23 August the sum of county numbers increased by 207 to 198,102. The dashboard also reported a statewide increase of 207. However, the total reported was now 198,103. EphemeralErrata (talk) 16:14, 23 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

As of 26 August, the second error has been fixed. EphemeralErrata (talk) 17:09, 26 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Discrepancy again on 3 September. 1,091 new cases were reported, but state total increased from 202,861 to 203,953. Sum of counties is 203,952. EphemeralErrata (talk) 19:56, 3 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

As of 5 September, the third error has been fixed. EphemeralErrata (talk) 18:02, 5 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Another discrepancy persisted 16 September through 24 September with varying errors. EphemeralErrata (talk) 21:11, 25 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

After numerous periods of a discrepancy, I've now switched to ascribing the error to unknown counties, even though Arizona doesn't seem to have such a reporting category. EphemeralErrata (talk) 17:48, 20 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Article getting too long

This article is near the WP:PEIS limit. As a temporary solution, I disabled the two progression graphs to bring it under the limit. EphemeralErrata (talk) 16:19, 21 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]