patch_data: Patch the case records for China and Italy

In CBDRH/COVIDreconnoitR: Pulls and Analyses COVID data

Description

In Mid February 2020, China changed their case definition, from RT-PCR-swab-positive to test-positive or clinical signs of viral pneumonia. This led to a large spike not representative of cases. some further thoughts: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/how-to-interpret-feb-12-case-surge/ This changes the cases on the dates shown below to the verified lab-confirmed only counts available at https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:2019–20_coronavirus_pandemic_data/China_medical_cases_by_province&oldid=946973173 Note that the EuroCDC data has dates a day later than the wikipedia data for China due to time zone differences. This adjustment is only valid for EuroCDC data, for the JHU data the dates for the adjustments need to be shifted back on day. - 13/2/2020 to 1820 cases (from 15141), - 14/2/2020 to 1995 cases (from 3237), - 15/2/2020 to 1503 cases (from 2538), - 16/2/2020 to 1121 cases (from 2007),

Usage

patch_data(data)

Arguments

data	data pulled by try_ecdc and pluck_latest.

Details

In addition, there are some anomalies with Italy, resulting in these changes

- 15/3: to 3497 cases (from ...)
- 16/3: to 3590 cases (from ...)
- 17/3: to 3233 cases (from ...)

These changes for Italy came from the WHO situation reports: https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/situation-reports.

Value

data.frame with adjusted cases

Note

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CBDRH/COVIDreconnoitR documentation built on May 28, 2020, 6:15 a.m.