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Why It’s Time to Get Serious About Intergovernmental Data Sharing The continuing problems with COVID-19 data illustrate why we need to do a better job. Initiatives by some states and local governments are showing how to make that happen and derive greater value. John M. Kamensky, IBM Center for the Business of Government   |   December 16, 2020   |  Opinion New York Times op-ed, performance-data pioneer Beth Blauer and epidemiologist Jennifer Nuzzo labeled the state of the nation's COVID-19 data as "a mess." Eight months into the pandem...

>> Lauren Leatherby, John Keefe, Lucy Tompkins, Charlie Smart and Matthew Conlen, The New York Times Published: 10 Dec 2020 01:52 PM BdST Updated: 10 Dec 2020 01:52 PM BdST More than a third of Americans live in areas where hospitals are running critically short of intensive care beds, federal data show, revealing a newly detailed picture of the nation’s hospital crisis during the deadliest week of the Covid-19 epidemic. The New York Times In El Paso, Texas, hospitals reported that just 13 of 400 intensive care beds were not occupied last week. In Fargo, North Dakota, there were just thre...

UPDATED Coronavirus: US Records 3,000+ Daily Deaths for 1st Time Posted by Scott Lucas | Dec 11, 2020 | Registered nurse Shelly Girardin checks data as Dr. Shane Wilson examines a patient with Coronavirus (Jeff Roberson/AP) UPDATE, DEC 11: Confirmed cases are 15,616,381, an increase of 224,681. Hospitalizations are a record 107,258, with 21,023 patients in intensive care. The Food and Drug Administration’s vaccine advisory committee meeting has approved the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for distribution. The FDA is expected to follow the rrecommendations with emergency authorization, raising the...