Wednesday, July 15, 2020

Freedom of Information Act

The CDC should sue. They require this information to protect the country.

July 14, 2020
By Sheryl Gay Stolberg

Washington - The Trump administration (click here) has ordered hospitals to bypass the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and send all Covid-19 patient information to a central database in Washington beginning on Wednesday. The move has alarmed health experts who fear the data will be politicized or withheld from the public.

The new instructions were posted recently in a little-noticed document on the Department of Health and Human Services website. From now on, the department — not the C.D.C. — will collect daily reports about the patients that each hospital is treating, the number of available beds and ventilators, and other information vital to tracking the pandemic....