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US Health Department directs CDC to add hospital data back to its website

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Mary Wilson

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From CNN's Kaitlan Collins

The Department of Health and Human Services directed the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to re-establish on their website public hospital data after they were criticized because some of it was removed Wednesday.
"HHS is committed to being transparent with the American public about the information it is collecting on the coronavirus. Therefore, HHS has directed CDC to re-establish the coronavirus dashboards it withdrew from the public on Wednesday. Going forward, HHS and CDC will deliver more powerful insights on the coronavirus, powered by HHS Protect," said Assistant Secretary of Public Affairs Michael Caputo. ​

As of now, the previously removed dashboard modules were back online.

https://edition.cnn.com/world/live-...16-20-intl/h_be4c6fadbe85b175f2edb1fcecc838e3
 
Here's a long-winded media release done on 7/15 by CDC and HHS about what they were planning and why. I don't have time to sort this out, but I wonder if data is still being fed to HHS first and the only thing they conceded is to put the CDC dashboard back up. They claim CDC will still have access to all the data HHS gets and can report it any way they choose, but it's not the same as them getting the data first, IMO.

https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2020...eld-cio-arrieta-covid-19-data-collection.html
 
The CDC performance in this outbreak has been nothing short of lamentable, starting with bad tests and bad advice, continuing with bad statistics, where cases of people with CoViD at death are automatically counted as CoViD deaths, even though that may have only been incidental.
Of course, HHS has been pretty low profile in this thus far, so no idea whether they will perform any better. If there is a more effective testing regime that emerges, it would be a positive sign.
 
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