The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has only published a fraction of the data it collected about the COVID-19 pandemic, The New York Times reported, citing several people familiar with the data.
of how much COVID bacteria has been discovered in wastewater, though state and local agencies had been sending the CDC their own wastewater data since the start of the pandemic,said. The appearance of COVID in wastewater can help health authorities predict outbreaks, scientists have said.
The release of data is also delayed by bureaucratic procedures. The CDC must run information by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the White House as well as different divisions within the CDC before release. Sometimes state agencies need to be briefed before information is made widely available.
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