“The US Department of Health and Human Services changed course on Thursday on a controversial decision about hospital data, directing the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to re-post public hospital information onto its website.”
“HHS had told hospitals to stop reporting the data on coronavirus hospitalizations to CDC, saying the agency was posting the information too slowly. HHS, the parent department of CDC, said it would manage the information instead.”
“CDC took down some of the data from its website Wednesday evening.”
“On Thursday morning, HHS said it was directing the agency to put the data back up…”
“The dashboard modules were restored Thursday. CDC has also added language to its website saying the data would not be updated past July 14.”
“The information was on the National Healthcare Safety Network Covid-19 module page and the CDC’s Covid-19 data tracker.”
“Public health experts had objected vociferously to HHS’s decision to bypass CDC…” Read the full article here.
Source: HHS directs CDC to put Covid-related hospital data back on its website – By Kaitlan Collins, July 16, 2020. CNN.
