{"id":91487,"date":"2020-04-09T14:02:09","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T18:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=91487"},"modified":"2020-04-09T16:58:31","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T20:58:31","slug":"propublica-we-still-dont-know-how-many-people-are-in-the-hospital-with-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=91487","title":{"rendered":"(ProPublica) We Still Don\u2019t Know How Many People Are in the Hospital With COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-pp-blocktype=\"copy\" data-pp-id=\"1.0\" data-gtm-vis-first-on-screen-452638_192=\"122108\" data-gtm-vis-total-visible-time-452638_192=\"100\" data-gtm-vis-has-fired-452638_192=\"1\">Late last month, Vice President Mike Pence <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefings-statements\/text-letter-vice-president-hospital-administrators\/\">sent a letter<\/a> to administrators of the nation\u2019s 6,000 hospitals requesting a favor.<\/p>\n<p data-pp-blocktype=\"copy\" data-pp-id=\"1.1\" data-gtm-vis-recent-on-screen-452638_192=\"122109\" data-gtm-vis-first-on-screen-452638_192=\"122109\" data-gtm-vis-total-visible-time-452638_192=\"100\" data-gtm-vis-has-fired-452638_192=\"1\">He asked them to complete a form each day with data on the patients they are treating with COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, and submit it to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.<\/p>\n<p data-pp-blocktype=\"copy\" data-pp-id=\"1.2\" data-gtm-vis-recent-on-screen-452638_192=\"122110\" data-gtm-vis-first-on-screen-452638_192=\"122110\" data-gtm-vis-total-visible-time-452638_192=\"100\" data-gtm-vis-has-fired-452638_192=\"1\">\u201cThe data will help us better understand disease patterns and develop policies for prevention and control of health problems related to COVID-19,\u201d Pence wrote.<\/p>\n<p data-pp-blocktype=\"copy\" data-pp-id=\"1.3\" data-gtm-vis-recent-on-screen-452638_192=\"122113\" data-gtm-vis-first-on-screen-452638_192=\"122113\" data-gtm-vis-total-visible-time-452638_192=\"100\" data-gtm-vis-has-fired-452638_192=\"1\">Now, as COVID-19 nears an apex in some parts of the country, it\u2019s unclear how many hospitals have submitted the requested information. For its part, the CDC has not released the data publicly, saying only that it plans to do so soon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/we-still-dont-know-how-many-people-are-in-the-hospital-with-covid-19\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">MY LATEST: We Still Don\u2019t Know How Many People Are in the Hospital With COVID-19 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NX8UeqUWZc\">https:\/\/t.co\/NX8UeqUWZc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Charles Ornstein (@charlesornstein) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/charlesornstein\/status\/1248210720849833990?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 9, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Late last month, Vice President Mike Pence sent a letter to administrators of the nation\u2019s 6,000 hospitals requesting a favor. 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