diff --git a/docs/api/covidcast-signals/chng.md b/docs/api/covidcast-signals/chng.md index 5375c4b57..4e00aaf82 100644 --- a/docs/api/covidcast-signals/chng.md +++ b/docs/api/covidcast-signals/chng.md @@ -17,6 +17,8 @@ grand_parent: COVIDcast Epidata API ## Overview +**Notice: This data source was paused on 2021-10-04 so that we can resolve some problems with the data pipeline. [Additional details on this pause are available below](#pipeline-pause).** + This data source is based on Change Healthcare claims data that has been de-identified in accordance with HIPAA privacy regulations. Change Healthcare is a healthcare technology company that aggregates data from many healthcare providers. @@ -185,6 +187,26 @@ Note that due to local differences in health record-keeping practices, estimates are not always comparable across locations. We are currently working on adjustments to correct this spatial bias. +Indicator values for issue dates before 2021-02-21 are merely estimates, as +these indicators were not yet available in real time. Backfill behavior of +these estimates is erratic and not indicative of current backfill behavior. For more +information on this effect and to track updates as we develop a fix, please see +[covidcast-indicators issue #1289: CHNG historical issues are wrong before 2021-02-21](https://github.com/cmu-delphi/covidcast-indicators/issues/1289). + +### Pipeline Pause + +Starting on October 4, 2021, a problem with the `chng` pipeline began causing it +to mark some days of data as deleted in their most recent version. These +spurious deletions affected all regions and `chng` signals from July 31 to +August 3, 2021, and the affected date range would continue to grow by one day +each day if we allowed the pipeline to continue running. + +On October 8, 2021, we paused the `chng` pipeline, and it will remain inactive +until we can identify and implement a fix. In the meantime, the versions with +the deletion markings have been removed, so that default (latest) queries and +queries with as-of set to 2021-10-04 or later will return the +next-most-recently-updated value for these dates. + ## Qualifying Conditions We receive data on the following six categories of counts: