The U.S. may have reached another milestone in the pandemic, as the CDC says it will stop reporting daily COVID cases and deaths in favor of weekly surveillance, similar to the flu.
White House COVID-19 coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha said in a Friday briefing that many states had already made the informal shift to weekly surveillance, which led to inconsistent information.
Unfortunately, the robust surveillance systems created at the beginning of the pandemic can't continue to perform without funding from Congress, experts say. Hospitalization surveillance should still be publicly available on a daily basis as hospitals are in charge of sharing that information. But some health experts worry the shift to weekly deaths could impede a rapid national response to deadly surges or a new variant.
Cases for both COVID-19 and the flu are expected to rise in the fall and winter months, Althoff said, but the coronavirus is still associated with up to 400 deaths per day – more than any other respiratory infection in the U.S.
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