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Posted by Katherine McCombs ·

Reporting Frequency Changes by State?

As we look towards the start of the third year of the COVID-19 pandemic and the beginning of 2022, are any states considering changing their public case reporting to once a week instead of what you currently do? I know some states still report daily, others 5 days or 3 days a week. This is a list of all states and their reporting frequencies: https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/state-reporting-frequencies. 

Comments & Events

Farah Ahmed, State Epidemiologist Farah Ahmed, State Epidemiologist
We are looking at reducing both our vaccine and case dashboards to once a week. We are also in the process of figuring out which metrics we will keep and which we will stop reporting on because our dashboards are extensive. This discussion is part of our "steady state" planning so the changes won't be immediate.


Farah S. Ahmed, MPH, PhD
Environmental Health Officer and State Epidemiologist
Kansas Department of Health and Environment
Bureau of Epidemiology and Public Health Informatics
Curtis State Office Building
1000 SW Jackson St., Suite 330 Topeka, KS 66612-1365
Phone: (785) 296-6426 Fax: 1-877-427-7318
Email: Farah.Ahmed@ks.gov<mailto:Farah.Ahmed@ks.gov> (Please note new email)
EpiHotline: 1-877-427-7317
For a testing site near you: https://www.coronavirus.kdheks.gov/280/COVID-19-Testing
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Janelle Janelle
We are also discussing reducing the frequency of our dashboard to once a week, as well as separating out the vaccine portion into it's own dashboard. We would likely update these two separate dashboards on different days of the week and/or have different programs in charge of the two dashboards. Like Kansas, these are long-term discussions and though the transition won't be quick, daily reporting is not sustainable for us for much longer given the ever-growing volume of data and the technical/workload problems it's creating.
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