Recovered time series are gone

[paolotamag]

If you check now the api returns 0 recovered and empty lists in the json for time series of recovered.

[Abdirahiim]

Our main data provided (JHU) has decided to drop support for recovery data, hence, the API will show 0 until an alternative source is added for world data.

There’s a notice regarding this change on the top of the README. Unfortunately little I can do besides change data source, which again, many people will get upset with.

Originally posted by @ExpDev07 in https://github.com/ExpDev07/coronavirus-tracker-api/issues/161#issuecomment-603066941

[paolotamag]

this is indeed a problem for our application, can we at least show the old data and then missing values since the days they removed the recovered features?

[ExpDev07]

https://github.com/ExpDev07/coronavirus-tracker-api/issues/161

[ExpDev07]

@paolotamag it's better to show nothing than outdated data, in my opinion :/.

[paolotamag]

no outdated, missing so you can still display the correct data.

• timestamp before JHU updated the dataset : 5 recovered cases
• timestamp after JHU updated the dataset : 5 +? = ? recovered cases that is a missing value

still not worth it maybe but potentially correct instead of showing still 5 even though it probably increased in number but it was not recorded, at least old visualization and application of people will work until the date JHU removed that feature.