Update Nowcast [delphi.nowcast.nowcast_update] failing in Automation

[korlaxxalrok]

Update Nowcast has been consistently failing in Automation:

Starting step [id=24109|step_id=25|name=<span class="tag_nowcast"> </span>Update Nowcast]
   Running cmd...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/automation/.pyenv/versions/3.8.2/lib/python3.8/runpy.py", line 193, in _run_module_as_main
    return _run_code(code, main_globals, None,
  File "/home/automation/.pyenv/versions/3.8.2/lib/python3.8/runpy.py", line 86, in _run_code
    exec(code, run_globals)
  File "/home/automation/driver/delphi/nowcast/nowcast_update.py", line 124, in <module>
    main(*validate_args(get_argument_parser().parse_args()))
  File "/home/automation/driver/delphi/nowcast/nowcast_update.py", line 120, in main
    NowcastUpdate.new_instance(test).update(first, last)
  File "/home/automation/driver/delphi/nowcast/nowcast_update.py", line 73, in update
    self.data_source.prefetch(last_week)
  File "/home/automation/driver/delphi/nowcast/util/flu_data_source.py", line 189, in prefetch
    for row in extract(response):
  File "/home/automation/driver/delphi/nowcast/util/flu_data_source.py", line 161, in extract
    return self.epidata.check(response)
  File "/home/automation/driver/delphi/epidata/client/delphi_epidata.py", line 91, in check
    raise Exception('Error fetching epidata: %s. (result=%d)' % (msg, code))
Exception: Error fetching epidata: error: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0). (result=0)
nowcasting 202101--202102
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   Fail [cmd=python3 -m delphi.nowcast.nowcast_update]