From 0f1e71b9ddb7e54362c8002cf21829353dca4197 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: aysim319 <aysim319@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2025 11:44:07 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] updated min year (#1585)

* updated min year w/ comment

Co-authored-by: george <george.haff@gmail.com>

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Co-authored-by: george <george.haff@gmail.com>
---
 src/acquisition/covidcast/csv_importer.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/acquisition/covidcast/csv_importer.py b/src/acquisition/covidcast/csv_importer.py
index e9893c0da..33df578a9 100644
--- a/src/acquisition/covidcast/csv_importer.py
+++ b/src/acquisition/covidcast/csv_importer.py
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ class CsvImporter:
   REQUIRED_COLUMNS = {'geo_id', 'val', 'se', 'sample_size'}
 
   # reasonable time bounds for sanity checking time values
-  MIN_YEAR = 2019
+  MIN_YEAR = 2017 # `google-symptoms` has 2017 data
   MAX_YEAR = 2030
 
   # The datatypes expected by pandas.read_csv. Int64 is like float in that it can handle both numbers and nans.