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Remember when people said CHINA suppressed COVID-19 information?

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More than 20 states either don’t release or have incomplete data on the rapid antigen tests now considered key to containing the coronavirus
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However, a lab in Augusta, Georgia failed to report any test results of South Carolina residents to DHEC for the past six months.

The results cover a timeframe of March 18 to September 17. About 2,000 results were positive for COVID-19.

The delay in results from the Augusta lab means no contact tracing was performed for those thousands of positive cases.
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A review of public records reveals not all hospitals are reporting daily statistics as requested during the COVID-19 pandemic. The end result is that hospital data is not 100% accurate when published or broadcast.

While the State of Colorado does update the public with statewide hospitalization numbers, it's impossible to find individual hospital-level data.

News5 has learned Colorado hospitals have entered into "data use" agreements with the Colorado Hospital Association (CHA). These agreements apparently allow statistics such as individual daily hospital bed capacity statistics and ICU bed counts to remain hidden---even during a pandemic.

The data exists---but you can't see it.

Colorado is one of a dozen states in our country where hospital data is controlled by a private hospital association.

Private agencies such as the Colorado Hospital Association are not subject to open records requests. This means the organization can pick and choose what data they want to release and when.

However, the CHA did confirm an agreement does exist to keep data confidential.

"In support of HIPAA, we have a data use agreement with our member hospitals and health systems that prohibits us from giving out this data at the hospital level," Cara Welch, CHA Director of Communications said via email.
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Funny how Americans ask for patience and understanding now, but when China was dealing with a new emerging threat, every imbecile alleged a "communist plot" was afoot. :lol:
"Because the system is being fixed, the state had not updated any data on Monday, including the number of new cases, deaths and hospitalizations.

no new numbers were available on Monday because of the glitch

As I look around the country this is not unique to Missouri,” he said. "Many states are having trouble and I think it’s because we’ve (Missouri) now done two million tests, we’re using 26 labs and doing 100,000 tests-a-day and having to do contact tracing. People have to understand there are going to be challenges.”
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Florida has obscured the true extent of its COVID-19 pandemic by using a misleading measure of positive cases to justify reopening schools and businesses, state data indicates.

While Florida has publicized that its “positivity rate” has regularly fallen below 5%, other health organizations are publishing data that shows the rate may be dramatically higher.

Independent experts, including Johns Hopkins University, consistently list Florida’s positivity rate at 10% or higher, twice the recommended level for widespread reopening.

Those figures show that the rate has never fallen to the 5% threshold, the South Florida Sun Sentinel discovered.
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The health department’s politically appointed communications aides have demanded the right to review and seek changes to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s weekly scientific reports charting the progress of the coronavirus pandemic, in what officials characterized as an attempt to intimidate the reports’ authors and water down their communications to health professionals.

emails from communications aides to CDC Director Robert Redfield and other senior officials openly complained that the agency’s reports would undermine President Donald Trump's optimistic messages about the outbreak

CDC officials have fought back against the most sweeping changes, but have increasingly agreed to allow the political officials to review the reports and, in a few cases, compromised on the wording, according to three people familiar with the exchanges. The communications aides’ efforts to change the language in the CDC’s reports have been constant across the summer and continued as recently as Friday afternoon.

since Michael Caputo, a former Trump campaign official with no medical or scientific background, was installed in April as the Health and Human Services department's new spokesperson, there have been substantial efforts to align the reports with Trump's statements, including the president's claims that fears about the outbreak are overstated, or stop the reports altogether.

Caputo and his team have attempted to add caveats to the CDC's findings, including an effort to retroactively change agency reports that they said wrongly inflated the risks of Covid-19 and should have made clear that Americans sickened by the virus may have been infected because of their own behavior
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Researchers believe more than 6,152 Floridians died this year than expected. They too are alleged victims of the pandemic.

We asked Jason Salemi, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Epidemiology at USF, to help us crunch the numbers and understand COVID-19’s true toll on our community.

“I think their job is to accurately identify deaths in which COVID-19 is listed as a cause of death,” said Professor Salemi. “I do not believe that each state should be reporting on excess deaths because it is a more complicated process than it might seem to be.”

According to the CDC report, it’s also likely Floridians have died from COVID-19 but that information wasn’t put on the death certificate.

So, it wasn’t counted in the state’s official numbers.
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NBC 5 Investigates and Telemundo Chicago Investiga have found thousands of little-known outbreaks of coronavirus in Illinois -- in restaurants, bars, retail stores, preschools, workplaces, gyms, clubs, churches and parties -- all kinds of parties -- across the state. Yet for months the state has concealed these outbreaks from the public, despite the fact that these are the very cases that could directly support officials’ continued pleas for people to avoid large groups of people.

The confidential list -- maintained by the Illinois Department of Public Health -- was obtained by the “Documenting Covid-19 project” at Columbia University’s Brown Institute for Media Innovation, working with the Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting.

Those records contain 2,553 confirmed outbreaks of coronavirus cases across the state — outbreaks which resulted in the infections of 43,780 people.

The state defines an “outbreak” as a case of coronavirus that spreads to other people. The outbreaks on the state’s secret list range from infections of two or three people — to hundreds.

Beyond the “confirmed” outbreaks, there are also hundreds of additional “probable” and “suspected” outbreaks, bringing the total number of cases on the confidential list to 3,013 cases.

But we also found that the state has been tracking hundreds of confirmed coronavirus outbreaks in places that hit all of us close to home: 58 preschools (resulting in the spread of 235 cases), 69 grade schools (resulting in 226 cases), 28 colleges (resulting in 226 cases), and 42 churches (spreading 414 cases).

And we found 118 confirmed outbreaks at restaurants and bars around the state — from fast-food establishments and pizza joints to hotel bars and steakhouses. In all, those outbreaks infected 448 people, according to the state’s confidential list.
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As Iowa’s coronavirus outbreak worsens, state officials are collecting information on individual hospitals’ capacity, staffing and resources — but they won’t share it with the public.

Iowa Department of Public Health won’t allow local health departments to make the information public.

Information on individual hospital capacity and resources is considered confidential because it constitutes information concerning physical and critical infrastructure, officials told KCRG.

It's also information the public deserves to know, said Randy Evans, executive director for the Iowa Freedom of Information Council.

“These are all details that are not violating anyone’s privacy,” Evans said. “But give the public a quick snapshot of what the conditions are like locally.”
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