Becker's Healthcare January 22, 2021
Jackie Drees

President Joe Biden on Jan. 21 signed 10 executive orders in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, including several actions to prioritize and improve federal data collection and sharing.

Five things to know about the executive order on ensuring a data-driven response to the pandemic:

1. The action calls on the leaders of all executive departments and agencies to facilitate gathering, sharing and publishing of COVID-19-related data with the pandemic response coordinator to help federal, state, local and tribal governments develop policies based on data insights.

2. Under the order, the CDC will create a dashboard to detail county-level...

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