Urging the White House to undo changes to hospital reporting requirements for COVID-19 data, House Democrats described the CDC as 'the sole agency with the expertise and objectiveness to protect the integrity of this data and provide accurate analysis.'
Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wa., organized a letter signed by 44 of 45 Senate Democrats on Friday, urging the White House to withdraw changes to hospital reporting requirements that sidestep the CDC.Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wa., organized a letter signed by 44 of 45 Senate Democrats on Friday, urging the White House to withdraw changes to hospital reporting requirements that sidestep the CDC.
Public health experts voiced worries that the move sidelines the CDC and hampers the agency's ability to provide critical, day-by-day information on hospital resources to states in the midst of a pandemic. The new guidance also ties the usage of the newer portal with access to the federal supply of remdesevir, one of the few drugs proven to work against COVID-19. Many hospitals were notified on Monday of the change, which went into effect Wednesday, July 15, and they scrambled to comply.
House Democrats also sent a letter Friday to Alex Azar, HHS Secretary, objecting to the new hospital data reporting system and urging the Trump Administration"to rescind it immediately." The letter describes the CDC as"the sole agency with the expertise and objectiveness to protect the integrity of this data and provide accurate analysis," and raises concerns about transparency, accountability and public access to the data collected by the TeleTracking portal.
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