AXIOS April 29, 2024
Hospitals starting this week will no longer have to report data on admissions, occupancy and other indicators of possible system stress from respiratory diseases to federal officials as another COVID-era mandate expires.
Why it matters: The sunset of the reporting requirement on May 1 marks a turning point in the government’s real-time tracking of airborne pathogens that helped drive coronavirus surveillance and reports like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s FluView.
- It comes as U.S. COVID hospitalizations are around the lowest levels since the start of the pandemic but as a new variant called KP. 2 is rapidly spreading in multiple regions.
Catch up quick: Federal officials since March 2020 collected data from hospitals and states to...
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