Covid-19 Data Will Once Again Be Collected by CDC, in Policy Reversal :
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is reversing course on a change to the way hospitals report critical information on the coronavirus pandemic to the government, returning the responsibility for data collection to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Deborah Birx, the White House's coronavirus coordinator, told hospital executives and government officials in Arkansas this week that the current system under which hospitals report new cases is "solely an interim system" and that the reporting would soon go back to the CDC.
"CDC is working with us right now to build a revolutionary new data system so it can be moved back to the CDC, and they can have that regular accountability with hospitals relevant to treatment and PPE," Dr. Birx said, referring to personal protective equipment used by doctors and nurses.
The reversal comes after increasing reports that the new system has been plagued by delays and inconsistencies in data since being implemented in July. Among other things, certain key statistics, such as inpatient beds occupied by Covid-19 patients, were updated only once a week, rather than daily or multiple times a week, as under the CDC system.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by c0lo on Monday August 24 2020, @03:55AM (4 children)
What happened to https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=42954? [soylentnews.org]
Not seeing it scheduled, not seeing it merged in any story, not seeing it rejected (and no message in my inbox telling me so).
Is it a bug in S/N through which a submission can simply vanish?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 24 2020, @04:06AM
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(Score: 2) by captain normal on Monday August 24 2020, @05:09AM
Any submission you make will likely be buried in the pile of the bot submissions by upstart.
When life isn't going right, go left.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 24 2020, @07:57AM (1 child)
The submission is on the Group W bench. https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=42954¬e=Hold&title=Covid19+affects+your+skin%2C+more+likely+to+get+you+in+the+hospital+if+you%27re+balding [soylentnews.org]
Holding tank, that's where they send you, when your submission may not be moral enough to be on the SoylentNews front page, " burn women,
kids, houses and villages after bein' a litterbug." ( Alice's Restaurant [lyricsmode.com], Arlo Guthrie.
Continues:
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday August 24 2020, @08:21AM
Oh, gosh. After all the effort I put to resist the urge of ending muh submission with "A good time to chemically castrate [wikipedia.org] the (old) men to save their life?" (large grin)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford