ScienceExpires Jan 1, 2022Closed
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Will California or Florida have a higher 7-day COVID-19 case average on Christmas Eve?

Probability

1h

+0.0pp

24h

+0.0pp

24h Vol

$0.00

Liquidity

$48.07

Historical archiveResolved NO

Orrery restored this market from Polymarket's closed-market records. Treat the numbers below as last-known market context, then verify the resolution source before citing the outcome.

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Research loop

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Canonical status

confidence: medium

Source status (Polymarket)

active · closed

Derived status (Orrery)

RESOLVED NO

Reason

Upstream marked the market closed/settled with NO price dominant.

Resolution & Risk

LOW risk
End date
Jan 1, 2022
UMA status
n/a
Resolution source
Primary
another credible source if data is still unavailable
Type
Ambiguous wording
Market type
Binary
  • Wide spread (100.0¢) — liquidity risk on entry/exit.

Probability (last 7 days)

+0.0pp 7d
No price history available
updated 20:59:19 UTC·src:Polymarket CLOB·snap:snap_2026-06-05T20-59Z

Why did it move?

Structured · 2 factors
  • 01
    Active signal

    Resolution-risk observation firing

    Market has reached expiry. Watch the UMA dispute window.

  • 02
    Spread cost

    Wide spread — 100.0¢

    Bid-ask spread is wide enough that intraday moves overstate any tradeable advantage. Most of the headline pp move would be eaten by spread on a market order.

What to track next

  • Verify the resolution source on this page — exchange feed, official release, news consensus — before treating any move as new information.

Verification actions only — never trade recommendations.

Each factor is grounded in a single named metric you can verify on this page — probability, volume, liquidity, signal, resolution state. No predictions, no prose hallucinations.

Verification Brief

A guided checklist for what must be proven before this market is treated as reliable context.

officially resolved
Trust transition

The market appears resolved. The useful check is whether the source and final oracle state match the displayed outcome.

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Verification goal

Map resolution-relevant sources to the exact criteria needed to avoid misreading price as settlement.

What needs proof

Primary source

required

Confirm the primary ambiguous wording source and whether it directly answers the market's resolution question.

Current evidence: https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_dailytrendscases

Contract wording

required

Extract the exact condition that makes YES resolve true and note any exclusions, time zone, deadline, or fallback rule.

Telegram verification task

Orrery verification task Will California or Florida have a higher 7-day COVID-19 case average on Christmas Eve? State: Resolved NO — officially resolved Need sources for: 1. Primary source: Confirm the primary ambiguous wording source and whether it directly answers the market's resolution question. 2. Contract wording: Extract the exact condition that makes YES resolve true and note any exclusions, time zone, deadline, or fallback rule. 3. Liquidity context: Check whether the move is supported by enough liquidity and volume to treat it as meaningful context. Drop only durable links that map to one criterion. Research only. Not trade advice.

X verification thread

Orrery verification brief Will California or Florida have a higher 7-day COVID-19 case average on Christmas Eve? State: officially resolved Verify: Primary source + Contract wording Price is not settlement. Research only. Not trade advice.

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Guided source review

A controlled loop for durable sources. Every source must answer one criterion from this Verification Brief.

Sources

0

Criteria covered

0

Reviewed

0

Awaiting review

0

Submit a source mapped to a criterion

Confirm the primary ambiguous wording source and whether it directly answers the market's resolution question.

Research only · no price-only screenshots · no profit claims

Recent source checks

Pilot audit summary

Research only · Not trade advice · Every source maps to one criterion

Timeline

critical · price · trade flow

Critical

  • 20:59Signal

    Resolution risk

    Market has reached expiry. Watch the UMA dispute window.

    LOW

Price movement

+0.0pp over the last 24h, now 0¢.

updated 20:59:19 UTC·src:Polymarket CLOB·Polymarket Data

Active signals

Recent Trades

No recent trades visible from the Data API for this market. That usually means liquidity is thin or this market is between event windows.

updated 20:59:19 UTC·src:Polymarket Data

Market Description

This is a market about whether California or Florida will have a higher 7-day COVID-19 case average for the day of December 24, 2021. This market will resolve to “California” if the 7-day COVID-19 case average for California for December 24 is higher than in Florida. This market will resolve to “Florida” if the 7-day COVID-19 case average for December 24 is higher in Florida than in California. If the 7-day COVID-19 case averages are equal, the market will resolve to 50/50. The resolution source for this market will be https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_dailytrendscases, the CDC's official count of Coronavirus cases. The data resolution source will be checked on January 1, 2022 at 8 PM ET in order to resolve this market. If the resolution source is unavailable for any reason at the designated time, or data for the day of December 24 is unavailable, it will be checked once every 24 hours for one week, after which the market will resolve based on another credible source if data is still unavailable.

Why this category?

confidence: medium

Category

Science

Source

Keyword rule

Matched term

covid

Reason

Question text contains "covid" — matched the Science keyword rule.

Categories come from a deterministic engine: manual overrides (highest priority) → sports hard markers → event-tag rules → keyword rules → Gamma category hint → default. The engine is versioned in category-overrides.ts; methodology lives at /methodology.

FAQ — questions readers actually ask

What is the current Polymarket probability for "Will California or Florida have a higher 7-day COVID-19 case average on Christmas Eve?"?

As of Fri, 05 Jun 2026 20:59:19 GMT, YES is priced at 0% implied probability on Polymarket. The price changed +0.0pp in the last 24 hours, +0.0pp in the last hour, and +0.0pp in the last 7 days.

When does this market resolve?

This market resolves by Jan 1, 2022 (2022-01-01T00:00:00.000Z). Resolution is determined from https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_dailytrendscases.

What source determines the outcome?

Resolution is sourced from https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_dailytrendscases. Polymarket's UMA optimistic oracle is the final settlement layer; if the published source is ambiguous, UMA tokenholders adjudicate. Source-extraction confidence is shown in the Resolution & Risk block above.

How much is being traded on this market?

$0.00 of trading volume in the last 24 hours. Lifetime volume on Polymarket: $36.5K. Open liquidity in the YES/NO orderbooks: $48.07. Spread between best bid and best ask: 100.0¢.

Is this a trade recommendation?

No. Orrery describes — never predicts. Every signal on this market carries explicit Evidence, Backtest, and Action tiers. The Action is always one of: Watch only, Inspect timeline, Create alert, Verify source, or Ignore — never Buy or Sell. The probability above is the market's collective implied probability, not a forecast Orrery is publishing.

How fresh is this data and where does it come from?

This page revalidates from the public Polymarket APIs every 30 seconds. Probability and 24h-change come from Gamma; the chart series comes from the CLOB orderbook history; trade and holder data come from the Data API. The fetched-at timestamp on each block tells you exactly how old the underlying upstream pull was.

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