“The federal government Saturday unveiled the first detailed national system for tracking the coronavirus pandemic in the United States.”
“The new COVIDView system will provide weekly updates aimed at monitoring the outbreak across the country, based on the results of tests for the virus, people seeking care for flu-like systems and pneumonia and those diagnosed with COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus.”
“I think it’s really important,” Lynnette Brammer of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, who’s leading the effort, told NPR in an interview. “Information is vitally important. It allows us to see…” Read the full article here.
Source: CDC Unveils 1st National Coronavirus Pandemic Tracking System – By Rob Stein, April 4, 2020. NPR.