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The Trump administration has ordered hospitals to bypass the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and, beginning on Wednesday, send all coronavirus patient information to a central database in Washington — a move that has alarmed public health experts who fear the data will be distorted for political gain.
The new instructions are contained in a little-noticed document posted this week on the Department of Health and Human Services’ website, Sheryl Gay Stolberg reports. From now on, H.H.S., and not the C.D.C., will collect daily reports about the patients that each hospital is treating, how many beds and ventilators are available, and other information vital to tracking the pandemic.
For perfectly innocent reasons I'm sure.
The new instructions are contained in a little-noticed document posted this week on the Department of Health and Human Services’ website, Sheryl Gay Stolberg reports. From now on, H.H.S., and not the C.D.C., will collect daily reports about the patients that each hospital is treating, how many beds and ventilators are available, and other information vital to tracking the pandemic.
Trump orders hospitals to bypass CDC in reporting Covid data, so his people see the numbers first
This is beyond disturbing, but we’re living it, unfortunately. While the news headlines (as reported here by Mark Sumner) may have tongues clucking tonight about Trump’s so-called intent to enforce Covid-19 reporting by hospitals through the use of...
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For perfectly innocent reasons I'm sure.