![]() ![]() Starting in June, the CDC says, it will update its vaccination data on a monthly basis. They may not share as much as they have in the past about who is getting vaccinated or do it as frequently, which may limit the nation’s ability to spot widespread racial, ethnic or socioeconomic disparities for future vaccination campaigns. Jackson said that most, but not all, of the 64 jurisdictions that report to the CDC have signed data use agreements to share their vaccine administration numbers. Starting next week, vaccination counts will become discretionary. She also said it will be very difficult to scale this system back up should another large, immediate public health threat emerge. “I think having the states do this all independently doesn’t make a ton of sense because it doesn’t help us understand, in the aggregate, the impact that disease is having on our communities,” Blauer said. “We’re kind of reverting back to a system where the CDC kind of independently negotiates all these data sharing agreements with the states and they make it more voluntary,” said Beth Blauer, associate vice provost for public sector innovation at Johns Hopkins University. Some experts say they’re disappointed to see that the CDC will have to go back to an older, fragmented system of having to ask states to share data. ![]() The CDC says it will still publish the case counts it gets from states, but that will be in a different section of its website, and the numbers won’t be totaled. When the public health emergency ends, it will be a state-by-state decision whether to share those numbers, Jackson said Thursday. It doesn’t carry any authority for required reporting. Brendan Jackson, who leads the CDC’s Covid-19 response. (Photo by Karen Ducey/Getty Images) Karen Ducey/Getty ImagesĬovid-19 was the fourth leading cause of death in 2022, CDC data showsįuture recommendations for precautions like masking will instead be tied to hospitalization levels.Ĭovid-19 will retain its designation as a nationally notifiable disease, but that’s just a recommendation, says Dr. The highly transmissible omicron variant is putting a significant strain on health systems nationally resulting in staffing shortages and changes in capacity strategies. SEATTLE, WA - JANUARY 21: (EDITORIAL USE ONLY) Nurse Elisa Gilbert checks on a patient in the acute care COVID-19 unit at the Harborview Medical Center on Januin Seattle, Washington. So the CDC says it won’t be feasible to maintain a national count or update its maps. When the public health emergency ends, more states are expected to stop reporting Covid-19 cases to CDC. As CNN previously reported, the CDC will stop publishing detailed, color-coded Covid-19 Transmission Levels and Covid-19 Community Level maps that have been tied to recommendations about when to wear masks, when it’s a good idea for people to test to prevent the spread of disease and when to avoid large indoor public gatherings. Other metrics that people are used to seeing on the CDC’s Covid Data Tracker are also going to go away. At some points in the pandemic, experts estimated that the true number of cases was more than 14 times higher than official counts. The percent of detected cases has only fallen further as people have turned to rapid home testing for a diagnosis. The number of Covid-19 cases known to public health officials has long been undercounted. The move to stop posting a national case count is largely symbolic. Instead of following Covid-19 cases, the agency will track the burden and spread of disease primarily through hospitalizations and deaths. WHO says Covid-19 is no longer a global health emergency Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus attends an ACANU briefing on global health issues, including COVID-19 pandemic and war in Ukraine in Geneva in 2022. ![]() “In short, we will still be able to tell that it’s snowing, even though we’re no longer counting every snowflake.”ĭirector-General of the World Health Organisation Dr. “Though our data going forward will be different, they will continue to provide timely insights for CDC, for local health officials, as well as for the public to understand Covid-19 dynamics,” CDC Principal Deputy Director Dr. The agency’s color-coded maps of county-level transmission and disease burden will be retired, the CDC will no longer track variants down to the state level, and it will update its genomic surveillance estimates every two weeks instead of weekly. On Thursday, for the first time in three years, the CDC will stop posting a national count of Covid-19 cases. When the US public health emergency ends May 11, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will have to change some of the ways it tracks Covid-19 in the United States, but the agency says it won’t lose its sightlines on the infection as it continues to be part of American life. ![]()
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