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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion docs/api/covidcast-signals/chng.md
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them. Their coverage may vary across the United States, but they report on about
45% of all doctor's visits nationally.

Standard errors are not available for this data source.
Standard errors and sample sizes are not available for this data source.

Due to changes in medical-seeking behavior on holidays, this data source has
upward spikes in the fraction of doctor's visits that are COVID-related around
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion docs/api/covidcast-signals/doctor-visits.md
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represents those visits known to them. Their coverage may vary across the United
States.

Standard errors are not available for this data source.
Standard errors and sample sizes are not available for this data source.

Due to changes in medical-seeking behavior on holidays, this data source has
upward spikes in the fraction of doctor's visits that are COVID-related around
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2 changes: 2 additions & 0 deletions docs/api/covidcast-signals/dsew-cpr.md
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Not all CPRs have the same lag between the CPR date (listed in the filename) and the date for a particular signal.

Standard errors and sample sizes are not applicable to these metrics.

### Differences with HHS reports

An analysis comparing the
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2 changes: 2 additions & 0 deletions docs/api/covidcast-signals/google-symptoms.md
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This means that the resulting values of symptom set popularity are **NOT**
comparable across geographic regions, while the values of different symptom sets are comparable within the same location.

Standard errors and sample sizes are not available for this data source.

More details about the limitations of this dataset are available in [Google's Search
Trends symptoms dataset documentation](https://storage.googleapis.com/gcp-public-data-symptom-search/COVID-19%20Search%20Trends%20symptoms%20dataset%20documentation%20.pdf).

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2 changes: 2 additions & 0 deletions docs/api/covidcast-signals/hhs.md
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facilities, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) facilities, Defense Health
Agency (DHA) facilities, and religious non-medical facilities.

Standard errors and sample sizes are not applicable to these metrics.

## Lag and Backfill

HHS issues updates to this timeseries once a week, and occasionally more
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2 changes: 2 additions & 0 deletions docs/api/covidcast-signals/hospital-admissions.md
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hospitalizations known to them. Their coverage may vary across the United
States.

Standard errors and sample sizes are not available for this data source.

## Qualifying Admissions

We receive two daily data streams of new hospital admissions recorded by the health system partners at each location. One stream is based on electronic medical records, and the other comes from claims records.
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2 changes: 2 additions & 0 deletions docs/api/covidcast-signals/jhu-csse.md
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number of cumulative deaths, resulting in an apparent spike in incidence. This
should be interpreted purely as an artifact of data reporting and correction.

Standard errors and sample sizes are not applicable to these metrics.

## Geographical Exceptions

Due to differences in state reporting standards, certain counties are not
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4 changes: 4 additions & 0 deletions docs/api/covidcast-signals/nchs-mortality.md
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counts not comparable across states. We check for updates reported by NCHS every
weekday but will report the signals weekly (on Monday).

## Limitations

Standard errors and sample sizes are not applicable to these metrics.

## Source and Licensing

This data was originally published by the National Center for Health Statistics,
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2 changes: 2 additions & 0 deletions docs/api/covidcast-signals/usa-facts.md
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reported in the USAFacts data or are reported combined with other counties;
these exceptions are explained below.

Standard errors and sample sizes are not applicable to these metrics.

## Geographical Exceptions

### New York City
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