Hospitals no longer reporting Covid19 info to the CDC

[Tiny]

This is disturbing... 

Looks like Trump's Administration will control more info about what's happening in each state... 

I'm guessing Covid19 will magically disappear by the end of August!  Just in time for School to start.... 


www.nytimes.com/2020/07/14/us/politics/coronavirus-data-trump-cdc.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has ordered hospitals to bypass the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and send all Covid-19 patient information to a central database in Washington beginning on Wednesday. The move has alarmed health experts who fear the data will be politicized or withheld from the public.



The new instructions were posted recently in a little-noticed document on the Department of Health and Human Services website. From now on, the department — not the C.D.C. — will collect daily reports about the patients that each hospital is treating, the number of available beds and ventilators, and other information vital to tracking the pandemic.

“Historically, C.D.C. has been the place where public health data has been sent, and this raises questions about not just access for researchers but access for reporters, access for the public to try to better understand what is happening with the outbreak," said Jen Kates, the director of global health and H.I.V. policy with the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation.

 

But the instructions to hospitals in the department guidance is explicit and underscored: “As of July 15, 2020, hospitals should no longer report the Covid-19 information in this document to the National Healthcare Safety Network site,” the C.D.C.’s system for gathering data from more than 25,000 medical centers around the country.

[haapai]

You are late.  A thread on this has already been posted.  It didn't get much traction because the Times had the story buried in their breaking news thread and many of us delayed clicking on the link in the earlier thread.  Now this story has its own headline on the NYT homepage.

I don't think that merging threads is appropriate.  Perhaps it would be less confusing if you posted something similar on the earlier thread and let this one dive. 

[moon/Laura]

Locking, as this is a dupe to The Walk of the Penguin Mich's thread (trump cooking the books).