Trump administration restores some COVID-19 hospitalization data to CDC website
Source: The Hill
The Trump administration has restored previously public data on COVID-19 hospitalizations after it disappeared from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website on Wednesday.
The CDC had been collecting that information from the start of the pandemic on its National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN), which the agency describes as the countrys most widely used health care-associated infection tracking system.
Researchers, public health experts and reporters used the CDC data to track COVID-19 hospitalizations.
But the administration quietly changed its reporting rules, and as of Wednesday, information on availability of hospital beds and intensive care units is now being sent from hospitals directly to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) instead of to the CDC.
Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/507696-trump-administration-restores-some-covid-hospitalization-data-to-cdc
hlthe2b
(102,562 posts)Miguelito Loveless
(4,479 posts)So, misleading and right-wing friendly is the default setting.
George II
(67,782 posts)hlthe2b
(102,562 posts)be updating. What part of that do you think unimportant, George? Gee gawds!
Honest to heavens, do you not realize how important this is?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm surprised at you, George. I REALLY AM. Actively dismantling CDC before our eyes so that they can hide the truth of what is going on and ignore the hospitalizations, deaths or dispute them. Because of course, a patient with COVID pneumonia didn't die of COVID. They threw a bone back and let them repost archived data, but NO change to the reporting of new and current data that is being hidden from Americans and from the CDC professionals responsible for acting on it.
WAKE UP
George II
(67,782 posts)....available on the CDC website. That created an uproar, and probably what caused them to decide to restore the data that they deleted overnight.
Finished, thanks.
hlthe2b
(102,562 posts)By failing to mention the continuing larger issue, the casual observer will think the problem is solved. In fact the Biden campaign fell for it earlier today.
I'm saddened to see you not realize/excuse what the administration is doing, but that seems to be so.
I'll leave you with this. "If you aren't mad as hell at what is going on...you are not paying attention."
hlthe2b
(102,562 posts)https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213766225
Until this week, hospitals across the nation sent their data each day to the National Healthcare Safety Network. There had been some complaints about this networkmostly that it was unforgiving when it came to the data format and didnt provide flexibility for capturing additional information. But that information fed dashboards at the CDC, which provided information not just on the number of confirmed cases and deaths, but on the rates of hospitalization and number of available beds. On Thursday morning, that site temporarily vanished. Then it returned, featuring data from last week.
As the Idaho Statesman reports, the switchover had an immediate effect on the ability of state officials to see what was going on in their own states, with the spokesperson for the Idaho Department of Health reporting significant challenges in their ability to monitor the number of hospitalizations. With the way information is now being routed, its not being congregated at the state level, or available on the public website of the CDC. Its all going into HHS, directly from individual hospitals, and what comes out the other side is only what the White House chooses to make available.
Information provided to the National Healthcare Safety Network was displayed as soon as it was updated, in real time. This led to some errors being displayed to the public, as mistakes, or badly formatted submissions, could generate errors that were instantly visible. But the alternative system, which is managed by private healthcare firm TeleTracking, is already resulting in delays and a lack of information that state officials called stunning and disappointing.
https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/investigations/watchdog/article244260242.html