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

[Nevilledog]

https://edition.cnn.com/world/live-news/coronavirus-pandemic-07-16-20-intl/h_be4c6fadbe85b175f2edb1fcecc838e3

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. The CDC has also added language to their page announcing that they will not be updating this data past July 14.

What this is about: Last night, some data was no longer available on the CDC.gov website after the Trump administration’s decision to reroute coronavirus hospital data first to the administration instead of sending it directly to the CDC.

As of this morning, raw inpatient and intensive care occupancy data up to July 7 was available for download from the site.

[hlthe2b]

1. Headline is misleading. CDC is no longer getting this data and were only required to post old data

Trump's HHS has diverted the current data away from CDC>

[Nevilledog]

2. I read it. I was thinking maybe it was a little CDC insurrection to pull the data.

That's the headline straight from CNN