如何向疾控中心报告疫情 美国疫情数据报送绕过疾控中心

美国疫情数据报送绕过疾控中心  

Hospital data on coronavirus patients will now be rerouted to the Trump administration instead of first being sent to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
the Department of Health and Human Services confirmed to CNN on Tuesday.
The move could make data less transparent to the public at a Time when the administration is downplaying the spread of the pandemic
and threatens to undermine public confidence that medical data is being presented free of political interference.
Michael Caputo
the assistant secretary for public affairs at the department
confirmed the change first reported by The New York Times earlier in the day
saying in a statement that the "new faster and plete data system is what our nation needs to defeat the coronavirus and the CDC
an operating division of HHS
will certainly participate in this streamlined all-of-government response. They will simply no longer control it."
这则消息当天早些时候由《纽约时报》最先报道，美国卫生与公众服务部负责公共事务的助理部长迈克尔·卡普托予以证实。他在一份声明中说：“美国需要更快速和更完善的数据系统，以打败新冠病毒。美国卫生与公众服务部的下属运营机构美国疾病控制和预防中心肯定会参与到这种得以精简的政府整体疫情应对中来，它只是不再控制这些数据。”
"The CDC's old hospital data gathering operation once worked well monitoring hospital information across the country
but it's an inadequate system today
" Caputo said in the statement.
The Times said hospitals are to begin reporting the data to HHS on Wednesday
noting also that the "database that will receive new information is not open to the public
which could affect the work of scores of researchers
modelers and health officials who rely on CDC data to make projections and crucial decisions."
The information removed from the website is the hospital data that was reported to the CDC's National Healthcare Safety Neork
according to CDC spokesperson Kristen Nordlund.
The data includes...
the current inpatient and intensive care unit bed occupancy
Health care worker staffing
Personal protective equipment supply status and availability
CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta said the change is "going to lead to more opaqueness" about coronavirus data.
"What logic does this have
other than to take away the data from the epidemiologists that are the best in the world at looking at this data
making sense of it
translating it for people
versus giving it to HHS
" he asked on CNN's "New Day" Wednesday morning.
Former CDC acting director Dr. Richard Besser on Wednesday said rerouting hospital data is a "step backwards" for the country's coronavirus response.
"It's another example of CDC being sidelined. Not only should the data be ing to CDC
but CDC should be talking to the public through the media every day
" Besser told Gupta in an interview.
He worried that the data going directly to HHS could "be further politicized
and that's the last thing you want."
"One of the nice things about CDC being in Atlanta -- being away from Washington -- is that we're able to avoid a lot of political pressure that you get in when you're in DC
" he said.
Besser appeared to agree with Caputo that systems needed to be modernized
but he added
"the answer to this isn't bypassing CDC; it's working to ensure that the flow is going faster
making sure that they're getting the right data."
The Trump administration continues to grapple with the coronavirus pandemic -- which has already claimed the lives of more than 136
000 Americans -- in moves that are increasingly being seen as political.
On Tuesday
four former CDC directors blasted the administration's efforts to disregard and politicize guidelines from the agency in a scathing Washington Post op-ed.
The four former CDC officials warned against what they called a "tragic indictment" of the CDC's efforts as President Donald Trump and top coronavirus task force officials seek to reopen the nation's schools.
Trump has said he will "pressure" governors to reopen schools
despite internal documents from the CDC separately obtained by the Times warning that reopening K-12 schools and universities would be the "highest risk" for the spread of the deadly virus.
"Unfortunately
their sound science is being challenged with partisan potshots
sowing confusion and mistrust at a time when the American people need leadership
expertise and clarity. These efforts have even fueled a backlash against public health officials across the country: Public servants have been harassed
threatened and forced to resign when we need them most. This is unconscionable and dangerous
" the former CDC officials wrote.
Public health experts
they said: "Face o opponents: covid-19
but also political leaders and others attempting to undermine" the CDC.