Using a different website to track COVID-19

[AllyCat]

I posted here several times using the a Johns Hopkins site. The last 2 days, that site has been wonky. Yesterday it didn’t update all day. Then today, the total US cases were over 1700. But it would load giving ~137000 cases worldwide, then settle in at 91000 leaving all the cases, deaths, and recoveries off for Italy, Iran, S. Korea, and Japan. Now it lists US cases at 1268. Something is off there. Run on the site? Hackers? Tricks from 45?

This is the one a teen in Seattle came up with: https://ncov2019.live/data

[hlthe2b]

1. Yes. I posted on this issue this morning:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213085632

BTW, I just checked the Hopkins site and it looks like it may have been fixed...

[Squinch]

11. No. It's still way underreporting the USA number. It's in the 1800s but JH is reporting 1200s.

[hlthe2b]

13. Yes... some of it is updating but it is still screwed up.

[Squinch]

14. The idea that someone is hacking that site really makes me WANT to self-isolate. What

kind of a world do we live in?

[tosh]

15. I wasn't thinking of hacking

as much as red states purposely withholding their numbers. Wouldn’t put it past these characters.

[Squinch]

16. No, someone appears to be changing the numbers.

[AllyCat]

21. Literally numbers changing

It is finally updated, but the number is WAY lower than other sites report. It appears hacked to me.

[AllyCat]

12. Sorry. Didn't see your post today. JHU is not fixed.

[Roland99]

2. seems out dated data. FL has 42 but that site only shows 30

[tosh]

6. For me today,

Florida and Georgia data has totally disappeared!

Glad Florida is showing up for you, I was getting conspiracy ideas about it lol!

[Roland99]

7. Direct link for Florida. Wow...see post #4. it shows 50 for FL now. looks like a good one there!

http://www.floridahealth.gov/diseases-and-conditions/COVID-19/

[LAS14]

3. I've been using the Seattle teen's for several days, but...

... I had almost given up when Massachusetts was stuck at 92 when "reliable news sources" first went to 95 and then higher. It was finally updated to 108 this morning. I do wonder what was going on, because I read that it was updating every minute.

[33taw]

4. This is the site I like. It has document links included.

[link:https://coronavirus.1point3acres.com/en|

[luvs2sing]

8. I use this site, too.

It seems very accurate, and I appreciate the map.

[Roland99]

9. Thank you. that looks really up-to-date

[Yavin4]

5. That site really shows you which states have tests and which ones do not. n/t

[gibraltar72]

10. Be very careful local radio

just said several tracking sites are loaded with malware. Be sure where you are going.

[defacto7]

26. Yes. Sites that work well without java script are safest

That means we can turn java script off and we still get the data. Worldometers is a site that works well with JS off. You just don't see the graphs. Some of the sites are JS dependant and we take our chances at those.

[Silver1]

17. Here are some good altrnate links.

Global:

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/


National:

https://coronavirus.1point3acres.com/en

This site shows the case numbers in all states and counties. It displays in Chinese for a second as a homage by the Chinese Americans who assembled it.

[LAS14]

20. About 1point3acres...

Do you know what the little number next to some of the case numbers means?

https://imgur.com/RbvxGJ1

[Silver1]

22. I think that's that number is new cases.

That's how I've been reading it. I can't imagine what else it could be and I didn't see a legend.

[LAS14]

23. That's what I thought, but new since when? Then someone else...

.. said they thought it was cases under investigation (they've sent in the test) but not confirmed. Having watched the numbers for Massachusetts and compared them with news reports, I think that's what's going on.

[Silver1]

24. It's new cases that day.

If you look at the summary on the top of the page, there's "new" next to the small number where total US cases are shown. They add new cases to that number as they come up throughout the day.

[LAS14]

28. Ah! Thanks. That's why the cases stayed the same, but the little number went away...

... overnight.

[LAS14]

18. 1point3acres beats ncov2019.

I'm going to watch several of the sites mentioned in this thread to see when the stat that Colorado had first death shows up. But I find only 2 I can use. It seems like the Johns Hopkins site requires drilling down to each location. Malwarebytes has not found malware at any of these 3 sites.

ncov2019 -

1point3acres - 3/13 - 8:07 (that's when I looked)

And then there's Massachusetts at 3/13 8:15.

ncov2019 - 108

1point3acres - 123

OK. Last night I heard on TV that Alaska and Idaho had their first cases. This a.m. 1point3acres shows both. ncov2019 shows neither. I'm abandoning the teen's site. I wonder how that happens, if the info is gathered automatically from news sources???

[Silver1]

25. I looked at their FAQ

and that was one of the things they covered. It's a team of 5 people, 4 in the US and one in China. The one in China is on the opposite schedule of the people in the US, so they stay pretty up to date.

[zackymilly]

19. Please google "hackers using corona virus sites to hack your computer". n/t

[defacto7]

27. Yep. Java script off helps.

If the site doesn't work without JS I stay away. Worldometers works well w/o.