Beginning in February, Hospitals Will No Longer be Required to Report Covid Deaths to HHS.
Because obviously the pandemic is over, right?
In recent months and weeks in particular, the coronavirus pandemic and the way we’re responding and coping with it has felt like a whirlwind. At least, even more than it already has. At the very same time an editor is green lighting a piece stressing the urgency of the situation in regards to the omicron variant and how hospitals struggling to keep up, you’ll come across a think piece from a wealthy, comfortable pundit who wrote an article calling for a return to normalcy from the comfort of his own desk. While we’re nearing a million covid deaths and a million new cases being recorded each day, lawmakers like New York City Mayor Eric Adams are insisting the safest place for our children is in school. On social media you’ll find a tweet from an epidemiologist highlighting the glaring surges in cases and hospitalizations due to the omicron variant, and then scroll down to see a tweet linking to a source that says beginning on February 2nd, the United States will no longer be requiring hospitals to report covid deaths to Health and Human Services.
Obviously covid deaths will still be able to be tracked and monitored by other means, but hospitals no longer being required to report their data…
