It's a secret: California keeps key virus data from public California's public health agency recently surprised local officials by lifting a stay-at-home order in the 13-county Greater Sacramento regionSACRAMENTO, Calif. -- California Gov. State health officials said they rely on a very complex set of measurements that would confuse and potentially mislead the public if they were made public. It released data models state officials used to project whether infections, hospitalizations and deaths are likely to rise or fall. “At the moment the projections are not being shared publicly,” Department of Public Health spokeswoman Ali Bay said in an email. “They’re making projections and decisions that have great consequence to people’s lives,” Condie said of state health officials.

Source: ABC News January 22, 2021 20:03 UTC