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Kyle Griffin
@kylegriffin1
The Trump admin has ordered hospitals to bypass the CDC and, beginning on Wednesday, send all coronavirus patient info to a central database in D.C. a move that has alarmed public health experts who fear the data will be distorted for political gain.
leftieNanner
(15,199 posts)"stop the testing, please"
If you don't like the number of hospitalizations or deaths, hide the data.
Laelth
(32,017 posts)Of course the data will be manipulated for political purposes. Thats exactly why alarm bells are going off in response to this mandate.
-Laelth
CountAllVotes
(20,882 posts)Anyone that is unfortunate enough to contract COVID-19 will be followed for the rest of one's life, that you CAN believe in.
So much for HIPPA, etc. etc. etc.
Nothing medical is private anymore.
Chemisse
(30,824 posts)More naked corruption in progress.
nolabear
(42,002 posts)I wish theyd do as theyre told and at the same time send it to a second site so we know whats been altered. Someone needs to act as that site.
Dream Girl
(5,111 posts)ProfessorGAC
(65,381 posts)He can't give orders to private health care or insurance companies.
They can just ignore it.
LiberalFighter
(51,299 posts)vsrazdem
(2,177 posts)they choose. Like he said in his interview about the confederate flag, its "freedom of speech."
Initech
(100,139 posts)I remember when it was an outrage when Sarah Palin was chosen as VP. Not stopping these insane right wingers from getting power is a major failure of America. We are such an embarrassment to the WWII generation.
NCDem47
(2,255 posts)For-profit and faith-based hospitals: "Sure! Do we send the data to the attention of Jared?"
Non-profit, community hospitals: "Get stuffed. No way are you controlling how that data is used. We'll CC the world if we have to."
ProfessorGAC
(65,381 posts)Health insurers aren't paying claims on mystery illnesses or deaths.
Those hospitals are not going to commit insurance fraud because PINO told them to.
Those for profit hospitals will tell the facts or go broke when they're not compensated by insurers wanting answers.
Freethinker65
(10,105 posts)What could possibly go wrong with trying to understand and control the spread of an infectious disease by bypassing the CDC and giving the data to unqualified Trump loyalists?
NCjack
(10,279 posts)electrical outlet, would you? Of course not. It would cause you intense pain and injury.
That's why you don't send your data to person who thinks that increasing sampling will increase the number of cases.