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The administration orders hospitals to bypass the C.D.C. with key virus data, alarming health experts.
nytimes ^ | 7/14/2020

Posted on 07/14/2020 1:35:58 PM PDT by bitt

The Trump administration has ordered hospitals to bypass the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and, beginning on Wednesday, send all coronavirus patient information to a central database in Washington — a move that has alarmed public health experts who fear the data will be distorted for political gain.

The new instructions are contained in a little-noticed document posted this week on the Department of Health and Human Services’ website, Sheryl Gay Stolberg reports. From now on, H.H.S., and not the C.D.C., will collect daily reports about the patients that each hospital is treating, how many beds and ventilators are available, and other information vital to tracking the pandemic.

Officials said the change should help ease data gathering and assist the White House coronavirus task force in allocating scarce supplies like personal protective gear and the drug remdesivir.

Hospital officials want to streamline reporting, saying it will relieve them from responding to requests from multiple federal agencies, though some say the C.D.C. — an agency that prizes its scientific independence — should be in charge of gathering the information.

“The C.D.C. is the right agency to be at the forefront of collecting the data,” said Dr. Bala Hota, the chief analytics officer at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. Public health experts have long expressed concerns that the administration is politicizing science and undermining the disease control centers; four former C.D.C. directors, spanning both Republican and Democratic administrations, said as much in an opinion piece published Tuesday in The Washington Post. The data collection shift reinforced those fears.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cdc; chinavirusdata; virusdata
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1 posted on 07/14/2020 1:35:58 PM PDT by bitt
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To: Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; ...

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!


2 posted on 07/14/2020 1:36:18 PM PDT by bitt (Let justice be done though the heavens fall - Fiat justitia ruat caelum)
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SCROLL DOWN the page..

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/14/world/coronavirus-updates.html


3 posted on 07/14/2020 1:37:13 PM PDT by bitt (Let justice be done though the heavens fall - Fiat justitia ruat caelum)
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Like the CDC is not a hotspot of Trump Hate Disease.


4 posted on 07/14/2020 1:38:16 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: bitt

This might be wrong (I might have mis-remembered it), but I thought I saw something a couple weeks ago, that said that for every 1 positive COVID-19 test, the CDC adds 15 cases, on the assumption that there are more positives out there, just not enough testing to find them all.

??


5 posted on 07/14/2020 1:38:26 PM PDT by NEMDF
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CDC is overwhelmed and doubtless, like all fed agencies, has a few rat-moles in it.


6 posted on 07/14/2020 1:38:30 PM PDT by rfp1234 (Caveat Emperor)
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To: bitt

EXCELLENT!!!


7 posted on 07/14/2020 1:38:47 PM PDT by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Have!)
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good idea.
the CDC has been caught LYING, removing data,
faking data, using known fraud data.
and THAT is in the light of their mission: selling vaccines.


8 posted on 07/14/2020 1:39:52 PM PDT by Diogenesis ("when a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced")
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To: bitt

Defund CDC


9 posted on 07/14/2020 1:40:14 PM PDT by Wilderness Conservative (Nature is the ultimate conservative)
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LOL!!

Love it.

Hope they don’t rescind this order.


10 posted on 07/14/2020 1:41:52 PM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: bitt
The Trump administration has ordered hospitals to bypass the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and, beginning on Wednesday, send all coronavirus patient information to a central database in Washington — a move that has alarmed public health experts who fear the data will be distorted for political gain.

Irony is ironic, even when the author is ignorant of it.

11 posted on 07/14/2020 1:41:58 PM PDT by MortMan (Shouldn't "palindrome" read the same forward and backward?)
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To: bitt

https://www.whitehouse.gov/live/

President Trump Holds a Press Conference
The White House 5 pm

must watch tv!


12 posted on 07/14/2020 1:42:02 PM PDT by bitt (Let justice be done though the heavens fall - Fiat justitia ruat caelum)
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"the data will be distorted for political gain." That is all the NY Slime does is distort facts and data for political gain!!!!
13 posted on 07/14/2020 1:42:15 PM PDT by Fungi
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The CDC, the FBI, the CIA, the UN, the WHO...etc...etc...are ALL corrupt.


14 posted on 07/14/2020 1:42:35 PM PDT by Osage Orange (qcsi)
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CDC is overrun with bureaucratic pukes.

Good move to transfer some of the data collection to HHS.

An even better move would be to eliminate all government pukes and transfer the data collection jobs to a private company.


15 posted on 07/14/2020 1:42:55 PM PDT by Presbyterian Reporter
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Gotta ask, if the CDC was so utterly incompetent in keeping China Virus out of the country, why on earth would Trump rely on them so heavily to manage it?


16 posted on 07/14/2020 1:43:22 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: NEMDF

This might be wrong (I might have mis-remembered it), but I thought I saw something a couple weeks ago, that said that for every 1 positive COVID-19 test, the CDC adds 15 cases, on the assumption that there are more positives out there, just not enough testing to find them all.

??

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They don’t add 15, they add however many people the supposed positive person may have been around. Could be more. And there’s MOAR! I posted this yesterday, and I forgot to add that often a positive person is tested several times until negative, and each test is a counted as a “case”:

A few weeks ago it was explained that CDC offiically changed the reporting of “cases”.

“Cases” include “probables/presumptive” which means any contacts a positive test person had over the last week or whatever. Whether they have symptoms or not. Even a presumptive’s (not tested or not positive) contacts can be counted.

Also included apparently are those with antibodies showing they had it earlier, very possibly with no/minimal symptoms.

Add to that people who don’t even show up for appointments for testing are given positive results, a lot of people reporting this.

And add to that that anyone with “viral particles” (however they acquired them) cand test positve.

And the final crapola is many of the tests give false positives. I’ve read of cases where nurse and doctors have sent in tests with swabs dipped in saline, or no swabs at all. Results? POSITIVE.

The entire edifice is rotten. The CDC also never says how many “cases” are actually sick or in hospitals.


17 posted on 07/14/2020 1:43:24 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.)
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“””CDC an agency that prizes its scientific independence”””


Weren’t these the same independent scientists who royally screwed up the initial test kits for covid??????????


19 posted on 07/14/2020 1:45:10 PM PDT by Presbyterian Reporter
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When I saw the announcement on Twitter, I KNEW it would drive the political Left over the edge. Too bad. 😛😉😆
20 posted on 07/14/2020 1:46:15 PM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's Economic Cure)
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