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<blockquote data-quote="Old Man Jingles" data-source="post: 4553523" data-attributes="member: 18222">The CDC has been criticized for its data collection, however. In May, the agency acknowledged that in tracking the spread of the virus, it had been combining tests that detect active infection with those that detect recovery from COVID-19. That system muddied the picture of the pandemic but raised the percentage of Americans tested as President Donald Trump was boasting about the number of tests the United States was conducting.Similar complaints about coronavirus data have bubbled up around the country.In Florida, a former data manager for the state Health Department accused one of her superiors of directing her to “manipulate” data used in the state’s plan to lift stay-at-home orders this spring. Shalala said the mayor of Miami-Dade County “was so concerned about the state data that he has the hospitals reporting their data directly to him as well.”And Arizona ended its partnership with a university modeling team whose projections showed a rising caseload, prompting pushback from Will Humble, the executive director of the Arizona Public Health Association and a former director of the state’s Health Services Department.“Trust and accountability and transparency — all three go together,” Humble said. Of the federal government’s new system, he said: “They’d better keep it transparent, or else people are going to think that it was an ulterior motive.”</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Old Man Jingles, post: 4553523, member: 18222"] The CDC has been criticized for its data collection, however. In May, the agency acknowledged that in tracking the spread of the virus, it had been combining tests that detect active infection with those that detect recovery from COVID-19. That system muddied the picture of the pandemic but raised the percentage of Americans tested as President Donald Trump was boasting about the number of tests the United States was conducting. Similar complaints about coronavirus data have bubbled up around the country. In Florida, a former data manager for the state Health Department accused one of her superiors of directing her to “manipulate” data used in the state’s plan to lift stay-at-home orders this spring. Shalala said the mayor of Miami-Dade County “was so concerned about the state data that he has the hospitals reporting their data directly to him as well.” And Arizona ended its partnership with a university modeling team whose projections showed a rising caseload, prompting pushback from Will Humble, the executive director of the Arizona Public Health Association and a former director of the state’s Health Services Department. “Trust and accountability and transparency — all three go together,” [B]Humble said. Of the federal government’s new system, he said: “They’d better keep it transparent, or else people are going to think that it was an ulterior motive.”[/B] [/QUOTE]

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