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Should we count the Ford County case in the state total?

According to the KDHE daily report: http://www.kdheks.gov/coronavirus/publicupdate/COVID-19_March_17_2020.pdf

The case in Ford County and apparently Miami County are from Oregon and Missouri respectively. As such, they aren't counted as the total for the state, since they aren't residents of the state.

Should we include these numbers for the state total? Should we mark the county on the map? Should we use a different color and label on the map? Aneises (talk) 20:18, 17 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Considering the difficulty of finding reliable sources for these cases I would think that managing to count all of these cases would be near impossible and we shouldn't try. I think we should try to stay with the state's number but notate that the number may be inaccurate because the state doesn't count out of state residents in its own number. I couldn't find anything similar on any other state covid-19 pages to reference for what to do with the situation.Military Peanuts (talk) 15:16 3/18/2020

To my knowledge the count for number of cases in the state should be 24 total, 22 if non-residents aren't included. Changes need to be made to the map (to include Leavenworth county) and number of confirmed cases under it. Not planning on doing it myself until I hear back on how exactly we're counting cases and mapping non-resident cases.Military Peanuts (Talk) 19:31 3/18/2020 (UTC)

I'd say we update the map to include Ford and Miami counties, since there are technically cases in those counties. If you're okay with it, I'll get the map updated later today. Aneises (talk) 19:51, 18 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Sounds fantastic Military Peanuts (Talk) 01:28 19 March 2020 (UTC)

Deaths by County

Anyone have any insight as to why the Kansas Department of Health and Environment is only displaying the statewide total number of deaths and not the deaths by county data?
Anyone know where to get this data from besides the New York Times? — Mr Xaero ^☎️ 21:24, 29 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

New county table template

You killed my project with your template. I was trying to track and include any differences in the individual county reporting vs the state reporting, and especially, to track numbers of recovered where I could. Moving the table to its own template makes some sense, but you deleted a lot of information. What about adding back my presumptive and recoveries columns? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ibemichael (talk • contribs) 08:38, 30 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Ibemichael, I have been in contact with the Kansas Department of Health & Environment regarding the data pertaining to cases, deaths and recoveries. I was informed that this information is handled by the local health departments of each county and that the State of Kansas is only providing a high level breakdown. I can add the recovery column back to the table but as for the presumed information, that is being lumped into the cases data with most if not all other states. In regards to "killing your project", please keep in mind that there is no ownership within articles as anyone can make changes at anytime (see WP:OWN). Might I suggest that if you are tracking this information for your personal purposes, please do so offline and not in an article on Wikipedia. By doing so this will save heartache when changes are made that you might not agree with. — Mr Xaero ^☎️ 15:30, 30 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Lethality by gender and age?

Anyone willing to add a table like Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/Italy medical cases based on data at https://www.coronavirus.kdheks.gov/160/COVID-19-in-Kansas? Ain92 (talk) 14:55, 9 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]