diff --git a/src/HowBadIsMyBatch.ipynb b/src/HowBadIsMyBatch.ipynb
index 492cdc16bbd..e07504bd44f 100644
--- a/src/HowBadIsMyBatch.ipynb
+++ b/src/HowBadIsMyBatch.ipynb
@@ -254,8 +254,7 @@
    "source": [
     "vaccineDistributionByZipcode  = pd.read_excel(\n",
     "        io = 'data/Amended-22-01962-Pfizer-2022-0426-pulled-2022-0823.xlsx',\n",
-    "        usecols = ['PROVIDER_NAME', 'ZIPCODE_SHP', 'LOT_NUMBER', 'DOSES_SHIPPED'],\n",
-    "        thousands = '.')\n",
+    "        usecols = ['PROVIDER_NAME', 'ZIPCODE_SHP', 'LOT_NUMBER', 'DOSES_SHIPPED'])\n",
     "vaccineDistributionByZipcode"
    ]
   },