US orders hospitals to send Covid data to health department not CDC
New York — Hospitals have been told to redirect Covid 19-related data to the US department of health and human services rather than the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), a change the government says will improve tracking but others fear could obscure how the pandemic is evolving.
The shift was announced in updated guidance posted on the department's website late last week. Hospitals were told that as of Wednesday, they should stop sending statistics such as intensive-care capacity and bed utilisation to the CDC’s National health-care Safety Network and route them to the department database instead. ..
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