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-April 2020:  Added integrity and consistency check fns --integrity.check/consistency.check/data.checks--, added geo.loc argument for report.summary() fn _ ver 1.X.Y
+April 2020:  Several new features _ ver.1.X.Y
+		- added integrity and consistency check fns --integrity.check/consistency.check/data.checks--
+		- added "geo.loc" argument for report.summary() fn
+		- added a couple of additional arguments to allow for customization of live.map()
+		- added new options to retrieve US specific TimeSeries datasets: "ts-confirmed-us" and "ts-deaths-us"
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 April 2020:  A couple of bugs fixed, affecting the growth.rate() and plot.SIR.model() fns; few more features added to report.summary() and totals.plt() _ ver 1.0.1
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 March 2020:  Includes data access, basic analysis and interactive plotting functions _ ver 1.0