House Democrats overseeing the coronavirus response called on the Trump Administration to reverse a decision that directed all hospitals to stop sending daily COVID-19 data to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But the Trump Administration directed hospitals this month to stop reporting data that way, but instead use TeleTraciking, a private company, to share data with HHS. "This database does not appear to be more technologically advanced than CDC’s current platform,” the lawmakers wrote. “Like NHSN, the new database relies on manual data entry with inherent reporting delays, as opposed to the automatic reporting technology that experts have called for. The CDC has been publishing daily data on the number of COVID-19 cases and deaths in the United States.

Source: Fox News July 18, 2020 18:33 UTC