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@@ -53,3 +53,9 @@ refers to an epiweek). However, NCHS reports their weekly data from Saturday to
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Saturday. We assume there is a one day shift. For example, they report a death counts
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for Alaska in a week starting from date D, we will report the timestamp of this report
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as the corresponding epiweek of date(D + 1).
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### Data Versioning
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We check for updates for NCHS mortality data every weekday as how it is reported by
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CDC and stash them on AWS. We merge them with the data stashed previously and keep track of
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the changes. Every Mondays, we upload both the most recent version of data and the
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changes made over the past week due to backfill to our API.

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