Changes in US pandemic data gathering
July 19, 2020
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CDC being bypassed in the collection of COVID-19 data
Department of Health and Human Services
Hospitals ordered to send all COVID-19 patient information to a central database in
Washington DC
Federal order
Hospitals are now required to submit COVID-19 data directly to the Department of Health and Human Services
Instead of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Streamlined and faster
Data not publicly accessible
Option to report data to state officials, with a written release
Daily updates on English Covid-19 deaths paused
Currently the daily deaths measure counts all people who have tested positive and since died
No cut-off between time of testing and date of death
PHE regularly looks for people on the NHS database who have ever tested positive, and simply checks to see if they are still alive or not
In Scotland and NI, there is a 28-day cut-off
After which a patient who has tested positive is not automatically considered to have died
from the virus
International comparisons are misleading because countries record coronavirus deaths differently
UK, Millions of antibody tests
Oxford University in partnership with leading UK diagnostics firms, Rapid Test Consortium (UK-RTC)
98.6 % accurate
20 minutes
98.8% sensitivity (misses 1.2% of actual positive cases giving a false negative)
98.4% specificity (gives a false positive in 1.6% of cases of people who are actually negative)
Millions by end of the year
Healthcare professionals first
Then millions of people to use at home
Send in their results to a central database.
Each kit will come in a box with a QR barcode and instructions
Uses the "full-length spike protein"
To capture so-called IgG antibodies
IgM first 23 days
IgG up to 49 days
Flu vaccine
CDC director Redfield is all for it
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