White House Strips CDC Of Data Collection Role For COVID-19 Hospitalizations

White House Strips CDC Of Data Collection Role For COVID-19 Hospitalizations Enlarge this image toggle caption David Degner/Getty Images David Degner/Getty Images Updated July 16, 9:40 a.m. "The CDC's old data gathering operation once worked well monitoring hospital information across the country, but it's an inadequate system today," Caputo said in a statement shared with reporters. But a top career scientist at the CDC in charge of collecting and analyzing COVID-19 data from hospitals says the new reporting system ignores the agency's valuable expertise and disrupts CDC's decades-long relationships with hospitals. Sponsor Message "We have high confidence in the consistency and completeness of the data that hospitals are reporting using the system," says Dr. Daniel Pollock, a medical epidemiologist and surveillance branch chief for CDC's Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion. On Monday, an email flagged "Special Bulletin" from the American Hospital Association and obtained by NPR, informed hospitals of the data reporting change, and indicated that distribution of remdesivir, a drug that's been used to treat hospitalized COVID patients, would be tied to the daily data reported into the TeleTracking portal.