Donald doesn't want you to know how many cases of Covid there are, and he'll send the National Guard to kill you if you tell anyone
Days after hospitals were told to stop sending information to CDC, all the fears appear justified
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 network—mostly that it was unforgiving when it came to the data format and didn’t 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.
The change in where and how hospitals report data, backed up by Donald Trump threatening to sending [sic] the National Guard in to make them “do it right,” means that the CDC is now bypassed. Instead, the data is now going into a new system from HHS. And what’s coming out is significantly less information. Just a couple of days into the new program, experts at both the state and national level are finding that the change is doing exactly what many feared—making it more difficult to track the threat of COVID-19.
... 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...
[So now republicans -- who used to be all "States' rights are king!" -- are now like, "Fuck states' rights! Do what the dictator says!"]
#Trump #Covid #CDC #Data #Ignorance #WillfulIgnorance
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/7/16/1961226/-Hospitals-are-still-sending-in-data-on-COVID-19-but-it-s-no-longer-visible-outside-the-White-House?detail=emaildkre