{"id":3511,"date":"2023-05-09T18:16:27","date_gmt":"2023-05-09T23:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=3511"},"modified":"2023-05-09T18:16:30","modified_gmt":"2023-05-09T23:16:30","slug":"end-of-covid-emergency-highlights-u-s-weakness-in-tracking-outbreaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2023\/05\/09\/end-of-covid-emergency-highlights-u-s-weakness-in-tracking-outbreaks\/","title":{"rendered":"End of covid emergency highlights U.S. weakness in tracking outbreaks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/2023\/05\/09\/covid-data-public-health-emergency-ends\/\">Washington Post<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/2023\/05\/04\/covid-public-health-emergency-end\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">covid public health emergency ends<\/a>&nbsp;May 11, laboratories across the United States will no longer be required to report coronavirus test results to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Hospitals and state health departments, too, will report less comprehensive data, making it more difficult for the federal agency responsible for detecting and responding to public health threats to protect Americans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The winding down of the Biden administration\u2019s coronavirus response and accompanying changes to reporting requirementshighlight long-standing vulnerabilities of a fractured public health surveillance system, one that fails to provide reliable information in disease outbreaks \u2014 even as&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/2023\/05\/05\/covid-forecast-next-two-years\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">experts warn of the potential<\/a>&nbsp;for the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/coronavirus\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_2&amp;itid=lk_inline_manual_5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">coronavirus<\/a>&nbsp;to come roaring back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhat we have right now is not a national public health system,\u201d said Nirav Shah, the CDC\u2019s principal deputy director. \u201cWe have a patchwork. And as a result of that, when we want to get data and synthesize it, it takes a lot of legwork that takes way too long.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/2023\/05\/09\/covid-data-public-health-emergency-ends\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Post When the&nbsp;covid public health emergency ends&nbsp;May 11, laboratories across the United States will no longer be required to report coronavirus test results to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Hospitals and state health departments, too, will report less comprehensive data, making it more difficult for the federal agency responsible for detecting and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":3512,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":false,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Screenshot-2023-05-09-at-19.15.13.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3511","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=3511"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3513,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3511\/revisions\/3513"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}