Hospital data on coronavirus patients will now be rerouted to the Trump administration instead of first being sent to the CDC, the Department of Health and Human Services confirmed. “I think it's going to lead to more opaqueness,” drsanjaygupta says.
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.
"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.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.
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