Dr. Deborah Birx says the CDC is working on a new way to track COVID-19 hospitalizations — just a month after the Trump administration mandated that hospitals sidestep the CDC in collecting such data.
Last month, the White House told hospitals to stop reporting critical data into a CDC system they had used since the beginning of the pandemic, which was analyzing the data and posting thrice-weekly updates on a CDC website. Instead, hospitals have had to start reporting information on how many intensive care beds were available, for example, and how much personal protective equipment was in stock to a newer system built by a private contractor,, or directly to their state health departments.
"Many hospitals, ours included, have struggled to use the new system," Chopra said,"and also to understand how best to extract data from it and use it to understand capacity, use rates [for protective equipment], and the prevalence of infection."NPR analysis showed Birx said Monday the information collected through the HHS reporting system is proving useful."For the first time every day, I can see every new admission across the country, and that has been extraordinarily important," she said.
HHS said Birx's comments do not constitute a shift in policy."The process for COVID-19 data reporting has not and is not changing," said a statement from Michael Caputo, HHS assistant secretary for public affairs, in an email to NPR.
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