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The CDC says the coming end of the public health emergency means the agency will be scaling back the data it routinely collects and releases about the pandemic.
Instead of following COVID-19 cases, the agency will track the burden and spread of disease primarily through hospitalizations and deaths.
The CDC is expected to end “community level” tracking of COVID-19 with the end of the emergency phase of the pandemic.
Three years ago we were caught flat-footed, and many people died.
Some shared data requirements will end and the federal government will lose access to key metrics as a skeptical Congress seems unlikely to grant agencies additional powers.