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Feb 22, 2022 · Daily Briefing. CDC has been withholding Covid-19 data from the public. Here's why. For over a year, CDC has been collecting data on breakthrough infections, booster shots, and Covid-19 hospitalizations—but hasn't released that data to the public, arguing that it could be misinterpreted, Apoorva Mandavilli reports for the New York Times.
Feb 20, 2022 · When the C.D.C. published the first significant data on the effectiveness of boosters in adults younger than 65 two weeks ago, it left out the numbers for a huge portion of that population: 18- to ...
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DATA AUTHORITY for CDC would enable secure, privacy protecting access to public health data in a timely and coordinated way. CDC must have access to data to lead effective national responses and support state and local health departments with detecting public health threats and respond in a health emergency.
At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, CDC did not have the authority to access critical data needed for situational awareness, decision making, and saving lives. Authority is an essential step to effectively identify emerging public health threats and provide important information to inform decision making and drive public health action.
It took too long to access important data when COVID struck.
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EARLY 2020
•As of May 11, 2023, the federal COVID-19 public health emergency has ended, ending CDC’s authorization to collect certain types of public health data.
Nov 19, 2021 · The FDA did not request a delay in the release of its COVID-19 data until 2076. The FDA responded to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for more than 300,000 pages of data related to the ...
Feb 24, 2022 · CDC Right to Withhold COVID Data to Prevent Misinformation, Scientists Say. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ( CDC) has made headlines this week after a report highlighted that ...
- Ed Browne
May 5, 2023 · The CDC will stop reporting new daily COVID infections and rely instead on hospitalization data to monitor the severity of the COVID. In the latest sign that the pandemic is receding, the Centers ...
Feb 20, 2022 · For more than a year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has collected data on hospitalizations for Covid-19 in the United States and broken it down by age, race and vaccination status.
