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The diagnostic flag is TRUE if either of the last two weeks of the dataset have fewer than an aggregate 10 hospital admissions per week. This aggregation excludes the count from confirmed outliers, which have been set to NA in the data.

Usage

get_low_case_count_diagnostic(calib_data)

Arguments

calib_data

A dataframe. It has date column of type Date, daily_hosp_admits column of type numeric and period column of type character.

Value

Returns TRUE if less than 10 hospital admissions in either of the last two weeks

Details

Adapted from https://github.com/cdcent/cfa-nnh-pipelines/blob/7f1c89d2eecfed89cc3f1be1771d93540ffd6eb4/NHSN/Rt/R/disease_process.R #nolint

This function assumes that the calib_data input dataset has been "completed": that any implicit missingness has been made explicit.