Mary Wilson
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Aug. 26, 2021, 3:24 PM CDT
By Andy Miller, Kaiser Health News
Two state government websites in Georgia recently stopped posting updates about Covid-19 cases in prisons and long-term care facilities, just as the dangerous delta variant was taking hold.
Data have been disappearing recently in other states, as well.
Florida, for example, now reports Covid cases, deaths and hospitalizations once a week, instead of daily, as before.
... Public health experts are voicing concern about the pullback of Covid information. Dr. Georges Benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health Association, said the trend is “not good for government and the public” because it gives the appearance that governments are “hiding stuff.”
... Another state website, run by the Public Health Department, no longer links to a listing of the number of Covid cases among residents and staffers of nursing homes and other long-term care residences by facility.
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/heal...ng-some-states-even-amid-delta-surge-n1277715
By Andy Miller, Kaiser Health News
Two state government websites in Georgia recently stopped posting updates about Covid-19 cases in prisons and long-term care facilities, just as the dangerous delta variant was taking hold.
Data have been disappearing recently in other states, as well.
Florida, for example, now reports Covid cases, deaths and hospitalizations once a week, instead of daily, as before.
... Public health experts are voicing concern about the pullback of Covid information. Dr. Georges Benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health Association, said the trend is “not good for government and the public” because it gives the appearance that governments are “hiding stuff.”
... Another state website, run by the Public Health Department, no longer links to a listing of the number of Covid cases among residents and staffers of nursing homes and other long-term care residences by facility.
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/heal...ng-some-states-even-amid-delta-surge-n1277715