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Warnings of possible cover-up in progress as Trump orders hospitals to stop sending coronavirus data to CDC

Posted July 15, 2020 by cmccabe

Tags: healthcare, coronaviruses.covid19, donald trump, cdc, hhs, usa, hospitals, politics, transparency, government, author.jake johnson, source.commondreams

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/07/15/warnings-possible-cover-progress-trump-orders-hospitals-stop-sending-coronavirus

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Authors: Common Dreams, Jake Johnson, staff writer
Published: Jul 15 2020
Word count: 657 words

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MonkeyPants
July 15, 2020
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The CDC has already taken down the hospital utilization rates by state. https://www.cdc.gov/nhsn/covid19/report-patient-impact.html

The CDC has already taken down the hospital utilization rates by state.

https://www.cdc.gov/nhsn/covid19/report-patient-impact.html

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cmccabe (OP)
July 16, 2020
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Manipulating actionable data, discrediting or sidelining experts. Not exactly a good recipe for crisis management.

Manipulating actionable data, discrediting or sidelining experts. Not exactly a good recipe for crisis management.

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cmccabe (OP)
July 15, 2020
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Public health experts are warning that coronavirus statistics will soon be newly vulnerable to political manipulation after the Trump administration ordered hospitals to send Covid-19 patient data directly to a Department of Health and Human Services system rather than the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which usually receives the information and releases it to the public.

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