Cumulative Coronavirus Cases in Long-Term Care Facilities (April - August 2020)

NOTE: See Table 3 for specific information on large increases or reported decreases in reported cases. In many cases, steep increases reflect reporting changes and may not reflect an increase in detected cases. Reported decreases often indicate data reconciliation or data quality fixes. Various starting dates for each state reflect different dates that each state started reporting. Data points for each state may not correlate with exact dates. To simplify data visualization, dates refer to the start of the week that the data was collected. Most data points for each state were collected 7 days apart. In a few instances where data was not available in 7 day intervals, such as in DC and Rhode Island, the prior week's and following week's data points were averaged to get a missing week of data. This averaging technique was used <10 times throughout this trend graph.