Coronavirus hospital data will now be sent to Trump administration instead of CDC

Yakoo752

Yakoo752

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But that has been the million dollar question and problem

Is it hospitalized due to covid or hospitalized with covid?

Deaths due to or deaths with?

I don't think it really matters, at the end of the day. We have, I don't know, 100 years worth of hospitalization and deaths data. We have today's data. We can do a simple compare and anything outside 1,2,3? standard deviations is an outlier. You get to decide your bounds.

Hospitalizations, I could go with 2. Deaths, I go with 1.

I'm not a statistician, I'm an analyst. I read what stats provides and I make recommendations. Kinda like the office space joke but I add real value by being able to distill and inform :laughing
 
scootergmc

scootergmc

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Yakoo752 said:
I'm not a statistician, I'm an analyst. I read what stats provides and I make recommendations. Kinda like the office space joke but I add real value by being able to distill and inform :laughing
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Well, it would be better if the TPS reports were timely and accurate....
 
bosco12

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An NPR investigation has found irregularities in the process by which the Trump administration awarded a multi-million dollar contract to a Pittsburgh company to collect key data about COVID-19 from the country's hospitals.

The contract is at the center of a controversy over the administration's decision to move that data reporting function from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — which has tracked infection information for a range of illnesses for years — to the Department of Health and Human Services.

TeleTracking Technologies, the company that won the contract, has traditionally focused on creating software for hospitals to track patient status. And there are questions about how it came to be responsible for gathering data in the midst of a pandemic.

Among the findings of the NPR investigation:

  1. The Department of Health and Human Services initially characterized the contract with TeleTracking as a no-bid contract. When asked about that, HHS said there was a "coding error" and that the contract was actually competitively bid.
  2. The process by which HHS awarded the contract is normally used for innovative scientific research, not the building of government databases.
  3. HHS had directly phoned the company about the contract, according to a company spokesperson.
  4. TeleTracking CEO Michael Zamagias had links to the New York real estate world — and in particular, a firm that financed billions of dollars in projects with the Trump Organization.
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Irregularities In COVID Reporting Contract Award Process Raises New Questions
https://www.npr.org/2020/07/29/896645314/irregularities-in-covid-reporting-contract-award-process-raises-new-questions
 
Yakoo752

Yakoo752

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Nothing noticeable in the data either

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TylerW

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I'm not going to those parts of the web to confirm for myself, but I've heard there's also a black market for covid-19 test results.

I can't really say I'm surprised.
 
bosco12

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Nearly three dozen current and former members of a federal health advisory committee — including some appointed or reappointed by Health Secretary Alex M. Azar — are warning that the Trump administration’s new coronavirus database is placing an undue burden on hospitals and will have “serious consequences on data integrity.”
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Experts warn that new U.S. rules on virus data collection are creating problems for hospitals and data integrity.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/12/world/coronavirus-covid-19.html#link-e6df5d5

The private health care technology vendor that is helping to manage the Trump administration’s new coronavirus database has refused to answer questions from top Senate Democrats about its $10.2 million contract, saying it signed a nondisclosure agreement with the federal Department of Health and Human Services.

In a letter obtained by The New York Times, dated Aug. 3, a lawyer for the Pittsburgh-based TeleTracking Technologies cited the nondisclosure agreement in refusing to provide information about its process for collecting and sharing data; its proposal to the government; communications with White House staff or other officials; and any other information related to the award.
https://int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/tele-tracking-response-to-sentator-schumer-and-senator-murray-dated-august-03-2020-1/7cf488a8cc55487b/full.pdf
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The manager of the Trump administration’s new virus database refuses Senate questioning, citing a nondisclosure agreement.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/14/world/covid-19-coronavirus.html#link-538de6a7
 
Climber

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bosco12 said:
Experts warn that new U.S. rules on virus data collection are creating problems for hospitals and data integrity.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/12/world/coronavirus-covid-19.html#link-e6df5d5



The manager of the Trump administration’s new virus database refuses Senate questioning, citing a nondisclosure agreement.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/14/world/covid-19-coronavirus.html#link-538de6a7
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They are stalling until after early November.

Legally, they don't have a leg to stand on, but it's going to take going through the courts to get them to comply, which will take months.
 
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