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Whoops, Looks Like Covid-19 Hospital Data Is Going Back to the CDC After All
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Aug 21, 2020 07:52am |
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| Author | Ed Cara |
| News Date | Thursday, August 20, 2020 09:50:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The U.S. federal government is seemingly calling for a do-over on how they want hospitals to report new covid-19 cases, at least according to reporting by the Wall Street Journal on comments recently made by Deborah Birx, the White House’s response coordinator on the Coronavirus Task Force. However, the Department of Health and Human Services on Thursday denied that any change in the reporting process would be taking place.
On Thursday, the Wall Street Journal reported that the government will once again require hospitals to report their data to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) instead of directly to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The move comes only a month after the new policy was implemented, following criticism by public health experts and others about the switch and continued struggles by the government in collecting and making this hospitalization data publicly available. |
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