{"id":2333,"date":"2023-01-31T11:30:13","date_gmt":"2023-01-31T17:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=2333"},"modified":"2023-01-31T11:30:14","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T17:30:14","slug":"the-u-s-still-doesnt-have-good-covid-19-data-heres-why-thats-a-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2023\/01\/31\/the-u-s-still-doesnt-have-good-covid-19-data-heres-why-thats-a-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"The U.S. Still Doesn&#8217;t Have Good COVID-19 Data. Here&#8217;s Why That&#8217;s a Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/6249832\/cdc-covid-19-data-tracker-hospitalizations\/\">Time Magazine<\/a>) Check the\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/#datatracker-home\" target=\"_blank\">COVID-19 Data Tracker<\/a>\u00a0from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and you\u2019ll get a rundown of the latest case numbers, hospitalizations, and deaths. Those categories might seem straightforward, but the data, say many experts, are telling us a lot less than we think they are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That\u2019s because it\u2019s getting increasingly difficult to parse who is hospitalized or dies&nbsp;<em>from<\/em>&nbsp;COVID-19, and who is hospitalized or dies from another reason but&nbsp;<em>with<\/em>&nbsp;COVID-19. Across the U.S., \u201cCOVID-19 hospitalizations\u201d represent all kinds of patients: those who need hospital-level care for severe cases of COVID-19; those with risk factors like heart disease or kidney issues who got infected, then had a heart attack, stroke, or kidney failure and needed to be hospitalized; and those who were admitted for one health condition but tested positive for COVID-19 at some point during their stay or several weeks afterward. COVID-19 plays a role of varying importance in all of these hospitalizations. \u201cThe situation is murky because we don\u2019t know if COVID-19 is to blame for their worsening chronic health, or whether they developed a COVID-19 opportunistic infection that is [having] more of a bystander effect,\u201d says Dr. Susan Cheng, professor of cardiology and director of public health research at Cedars-Sinai. \u201cIt\u2019s hard to parse these things out except in the most extremely obvious cases.\u201d<\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"Zk PSZ\"><!-- Zk PSZ --><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Time Magazine) Check the\u00a0COVID-19 Data Tracker\u00a0from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and you\u2019ll get a rundown of the latest case numbers, hospitalizations, and deaths. Those categories might seem straightforward, but the data, say many experts, are telling us a lot less than we think they are. That\u2019s because it\u2019s getting increasingly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid","category-featured"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2334,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2333\/revisions\/2334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}