I realize this is not your issue, but your instructions said to leave a ticket their "too" so I left one here as well.
# in interactive python 3
import urllib.requests
data=json.loads(urllib.request.urlopen(SITE).read().decode()
data["US"]
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{'date': '2020-12-9', 'confirmed': 15534536, 'deaths': 293847, 'recovered': 5889896}, {'date': '2020-12-10', 'confirmed': 15765165, 'deaths': 296830, 'recovered': 5985047}, {'date': '2020-12-11', 'confirmed': 16003837, 'deaths': 300246, 'recovered': 6135314}, {'date': '2020-12-12', 'confirmed': 16220250, 'deaths': 302698, 'recovered': 6246605}, {'date': '2020-12-13', 'confirmed': 16407679, 'deaths': 304301, 'recovered': 6298082},
{'date': '2020-12-14', 'confirmed': 16600830, 'deaths': 305998, 'recovered': 0}, {'date': '2020-12-15', 'confirmed': 16810019, 'deaths': 309092, 'recovered': 0}, {'date': '2020-12-16', 'confirmed': 17055759, 'deaths': 312813, 'recovered': 0}, {'date': '2020-12-17', 'confirmed': 17294836, 'deaths': 316274, 'recovered': 0}, {'date': '2020-12-18', 'confirmed': 17545869, 'deaths': 319223, 'recovered': 0},
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I realize this is not your issue, but your instructions said to leave a ticket their "too" so I left one here as well.
CSSEGISandData/COVID-19#3700
How I get the data:
Output: