There's a note on the data dashboard that (partially) explains it:

"Today, the Virginia Department of Health (VDH) announced that the COVID-19 data numbers that will be posted on Friday, August 7 will contain a significant increase due to a data backlog from earlier in the week.

Today’s data will indicate 2,015 new cases. This figure includes information that should have been reported on Wednesday and Thursday of this week as well as the regular numbers for Friday.

Late Thursday, VDH’s Office of Information Management, which helps manage VDH’s COVID-19 databases, identified and rectified the technical issue, which was a system performance configuration.

To follow the number of new cases by day of symptom onset, please refer to the graph, 'Number of Cases by Date of Symptom Onset.'"

I appreciate that they're trying to report the information. However, this is not the first time they bungled how the data are released.

In response to this post by ModerateHokie

Posted: 08/07/2020 at 12:29PM

Huge spike in COVID cases in VA yesterday, in all regions.... -- ModerateHokie 08/07/2020 09:51AM

There's a note on the data dashboard that (partially) explains it: -- HokieEngineer 08/07/2020 12:29PM

Backlogged data is a key item to tease out. Good going. ** -- ColoVT82 08/07/2020 1:12PM

That friggin' hurricane did it. All that huddling under the bed. ** -- Stork 08/07/2020 11:05AM

The hurricane blew all the droplets from VB over the rest of the state. ** -- HokieNoVA 08/07/2020 12:19PM

Click on cases by date of onset - you are seeing batching issue ** -- Concord Dan 08/07/2020 11:05AM

Ok. So what changed? Did they add new labs? Change reporting procedures? -- ModerateHokie 08/07/2020 11:08AM

It’s updated now with explanation -- vbuva05 08/07/2020 11:31AM

Lag in testing results most likely ** -- MEHOKIE 08/07/2020 10:57AM

Haven't been tested yet, besides, I live in MD** -- `lag 08/07/2020 11:31AM

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Nah, I immediately go full conspiracy theory :) ** -- FfxStationHokie 08/07/2020 11:03AM

Not in Loudoun County, we're Covid All-Stars -- HWA 08/07/2020 10:34AM

Maybe those who are most susceptible have already gotten infected? ** -- HokieEngineer 08/07/2020 12:51PM

Until they fully explain how they calculate cases, giving us specific... -- EDGEMAN 08/07/2020 09:58AM

Some labs appear to be releasing results in bulk at the end of the week -- Hokie CPA 08/07/2020 09:55AM

You don't see similarly-timed spikes in prior weeks though. ** -- ModerateHokie 08/07/2020 09:56AM

You don't? -- Hokie CPA 08/07/2020 10:01AM

I said similarly timed. Your thesis was end-of-the-week reporting. -- ModerateHokie 08/07/2020 10:03AM

The chart on the Daily Dashboard suggests we're doing much better than we -- Hokie CPA 08/07/2020 10:20AM

Who knows if the "public health" officials were told to go test all... -- EDGEMAN 08/07/2020 10:00AM

There's a note on the data dashboard that (partially) explains it:

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