Coronavirus Hospital Data To Be Sent To Trump Administration Instead Of CDC

All data on Coronavirus patients in the hospital will be sent to the Department of Health and Human services and then to the Trump administration instead of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention moving forward.

Per CNN, this move could be detrimental as it could make data less transparent to the public. The administration is already believed to be downplaying the virus and it could affect the public’s wellbeing.

Michael Caputo, the assistant secretary for public affairs at the department confirmed the news adding that a “new faster and complete data system is what our nation needs to defeat the coronavirus and the CDC, an operating division of HHS, will certainly participate in this streamlined all-of-government response. They will simply no longer control it.”

“The CDC’s old hospital data gathering operation once worked well monitoring hospital information across the country, but it’s an inadequate system today.”

Hospitals will begin reporting data to HHS as soon as Wednesday, adding that the “database that will receive new information is not open to the public, which could affect the work of scores of researchers, modelers and health officials who rely on C.D.C. data to make projections and crucial decisions.”

CDC directors have slammed the decision.