Hi Nathan - thanks for reading!
The numbers you're looking at include only confirmed cases, not confirmed and probable. The county-level numbers the CDC provides are a combination of the two. The definition of Lyme disease has changed over the years, but as of 2008 states report the total case number as the combination of confirmed and probable. Since I didn't want to use one set of numbers for county-level and a different set for state-level, I used the combined numbers in all cases for this analysis. I double-checked this approach with folks at both the Vermont Health Department and the CDC, since a lot of reporting I've seen uses both sets of numbers interchangeably, and they confirmed that reporting out the combined total, rather than just the confirmed category, is valid.
You can download the county-level dataset that I used for this analysis at the bottom of this page: https://www.cdc.gov/lyme/stats/survfaq.htm…
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