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  • Public Health Data Science

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  • The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted challenges in timely and accurate data aggregation.
  • Variability in reporting methods across different data sources necessitates reliability assessments.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To statistically evaluate the reliability of COVID-19 case and death data reported by various aggregators.
  • To assess inter-rater agreement using case fatality rate (CFR) estimates.

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  • Collected daily COVID-19 case and death data from state/local health departments and news reports.
  • Compared data from BroadStreet with other aggregators: USAFacts, Johns Hopkins University, New York Times, The COVID Tracking Project.
  • Utilized reliability statistics and Bayesian estimates for CFR analysis.

Main Results:

  • Observed lower inter-rater agreement among aggregators for COVID-19 death counts.
  • State-level Bayesian estimates of COVID-19 fatality rates reflected this variability.

Conclusions:

  • Significant discrepancies exist in COVID-19 data reporting across aggregators, particularly for mortality data.
  • A unified, publicly accessible national dataset is essential for reliable disease outbreak surveillance and response.