Hi @ECDC_EU, I'm looking at COVID-19 case numbers you're publishing and I noticed that Spain has negative number on 19/04/2020. That looks like a mistake. What's the way to sort it out?
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The reason they wouldn't do that is that it creates two versions of historical truth, and once you allow mutability of past data, there's a risk that using derivative data (e.g. cumulative deaths) from different versions of the past could lead to further errors.
If the raw data is published as an immutable event log, it's more resilient. An alternative would be to use bilinear time coordinates (T, t) for every datapoint, ("this is what we thought, at time t, about time T"), but that's an order of magnitude more complex.
