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In reply to the discussion: New COVID-19 inflections downward trend. [View all]Ms. Toad
(34,085 posts)70. I didn't say check the source, I said check the facts. What data is going directly to HHS?
Is it new cases (the data in the graph in the OP - and the 77,000 per day you suggest is linked to the change) and deaths (another main data set tracked)?
From the article you posted:
Hospitals are supposed to report daily to the federal government how many beds they have, the number occupied and the availability of intensive care beds. Under the new system, the Department of Health and Human Services aggregates the information at a state level and shares a daily spreadsheet of the information that has been reported gaps and all.
. . .
The established system was disrupted by a memo dated July 10, issued to hospitals by HHS. In the memo, HHS took the unusual step of instructing hospitals to stop reporting the capacity data to CDC and to instead use a reporting platform developed recently by private contractor TeleTracking. As NPR has reported, the details of how the contract was awarded to TeleTracking are unclear.
Hospitals received only a few days notice of the change and scrambled to adapt.
. . .
The established system was disrupted by a memo dated July 10, issued to hospitals by HHS. In the memo, HHS took the unusual step of instructing hospitals to stop reporting the capacity data to CDC and to instead use a reporting platform developed recently by private contractor TeleTracking. As NPR has reported, the details of how the contract was awarded to TeleTracking are unclear.
Hospitals received only a few days notice of the change and scrambled to adapt.
Here is the data that is now being reported to HHS directly. If you review it, you'll find it has no direct connection to tracking the number of new cases, or deaths daily.
The only indirect connection is related to aggregate, in-house hospita testing - and even that data remains ultimatdly under the control of the CDC (ater being reported to the state health departments):
Under the new guidance, testing data should be sent to state health departments, which will then deidentify the data and report them to the CDC. This new guidance is effective August 1, 2020.
It is critical to read beyond the alarming headline, and discern exactly what was changed by the order before assuming the change (in reporting hospital capacity) is somehow responsible for the downturn in new cases.
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Indiana has a mask mandate (more or less- GOP gov backed down), but most everything is open
dawg day
Aug 2020
#50
Yes, I used to think that the infection numbers were not very meaningful due to limited
Steelrolled
Aug 2020
#4
Testing has been reduced for couple of weeks due to labs backed up and other problems
wishstar
Aug 2020
#5
this graph has no source or link but it is pretty. hawaii set a record for daily cases today tn
msongs
Aug 2020
#10
I didn't say check the source, I said check the facts. What data is going directly to HHS?
Ms. Toad
Aug 2020
#70
I was a little cranky, since I've posted this same information several times today
Ms. Toad
Aug 2020
#77
Very few numbers are going to HHS - and they are not the numbers reflected in this graph.
Ms. Toad
Aug 2020
#28
that would be great if it holds. maybe now that shit got real in red states
SiliconValley_Dem
Aug 2020
#23
wtf are you posting? it's because of trump and the gop that the virus have killed many Americans
rockfordfile
Aug 2020
#74
but this is 7 day moving average which should smooth thos kinds of variations
SiliconValley_Dem
Aug 2020
#64
problem is, DeSantis has done all he can to interfere with COVID data and recently has
beachbumbob
Aug 2020
#49
Federal funding for testing dried up* so not as much testing and results available.
flying_wahini
Aug 2020
#63
It is up in the mid west and I would not trust the numbers with data not being sent to
Demsrule86
Aug 2020
#72