"It's embarrassing."
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Funny, when the previous administration had problems, it was more than "embarrassing." It was a failure of leadership, incompetence, etc.
Now, it's just "my bad..."
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/12/20/cdc-covid-omicron-delta-tracking-525621
As the world experiences new, more transmissible Covid-19 variants, scientists and health officials in the U.S. are still struggling to gather accurate and timely domestic data to help inform policy decisions to safeguard Americans.
Continuing gaps in the CDC’s data collection program, which almost two years into the pandemic still relies on state health departments who use a mix of often incompatible and outdated state systems to identify cases, impedes the nation’s understanding of where and how fast the virus is spreading, according to more than a dozen state and federal officials involved in tracking cases.
The fact that the data gaps have been apparent since the start of the pandemic makes the lack of substantial improvement particularly galling to many infectious disease specialists.
“I think we've done a horrible job from day one in data tracking for the pandemic,” said Eric Topol, a professor of molecular medicine at Scripps Research and former advisory board member of the Covid Tracking Project, a team that worked to collect and synthesize local Covid-19 during the peak of the pandemic. “We're not tracking all the things that we need to to get a handle on what's going on. It is embarrassing.”
Meanwhile, other Western countries have tapped into their modern health systems that can easily track patient data and seamlessly share epidemiologic information across a broad spectrum of health care facilities and public health departments. Because of the lack of accurate and timely domestic data, Biden health officials over the last eight months have increasingly relied on international sources to respond to domestic surges in part because they believe the information is more reliable, the officials said.
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Meanwhile, other Western countries have tapped into their modern health systems that can easily track patient data and seamlessly share epidemiologic information across a broad spectrum of health care facilities and public health departments.
Really?
I mean, really and truly? Come on.
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@copper said in "It's embarrassing.":
Meanwhile, other Western countries have tapped into their modern health systems that can easily track patient data and seamlessly share epidemiologic information across a broad spectrum of health care facilities and public health departments.
Really?
I mean, really and truly? Come on.
That's hilarious. Has anybody been watching the debacle in the UK? The anger has been added to by a number of photographs and videos of parties occurring in and around 10 Downing Street right when everybody else was completely locked-down. A right bunch of twats, and no mistake.
