CDC may simply resume processing of state COVID-19 knowledge and medical facilities, according to media reports.
This week, in a briefing on a scale in Arkansas, Dr. Deborah Birx said the CDC “is building a new and revolutionary knowledge formula so that it can be brought back to the CDC” to track COVID-19 treatment, patients, and PPE needs, according to the Wall Street Journal.
The CDC’s National Health Care Safety Network has been tracking cases and knowledge of COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic.
Then, in mid-July, hospitals and states were asked to avoid their use and send their data directly to Health and Human Services, as well as to a new database created through personal contractor TeleTracking.
The application was originally made with the aim of reducing duplicate programs and minimizing the burden of reporting on hospitals and facilities.
However, many hospitals, officials and journalists noticed that the figures in the new formula gave the impression that they were incomplete and that the database was slowly updated.
The CDC would work with the U.S. Digital Service, according to the WSJ, a company that created the Obama administration to help improve HealthCare.gov, the marketplace of insurance plans that are part of the Affordable Care Act.
There is no schedule discussed in Dr. Birx’s comments, according to NPR.