WSJ: Admin Reverses, Says CDC Will Regain Control Of COVID Data | Talking Points Memo

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The Trump administration is reversing course and giving COVID-19 hospital data collection duties back to the the Centers for Disease Control, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday, citing comments from White House Coronavirus Task Force Coordinator Deborah Birx.

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So I guess they figured out that those NDA’s wouldn’t keep people from finding out how incompetent TeleTracking was at the job. Do we get to see more reliable numbers now?

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There’s got to be a lot more to this story.

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TeleTracking still gonna keep all the money though, obvs.

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Seems a little early for a whistle-blower. Guessing somebody is in trouble, as this administration is recalcitrant as they come - they will never admit to a mistake. For the sake of all that are still living, I am glad that CDC is off the bench and back on the team.

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♫♪ And the walls come tumblin’ down… ♪♫

Literally figuratively.

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Van Morrison?

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John Mellenkamp. Post-Cougar.

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Hmmm. Smells of more corruption to me.

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Next, an announcement of the indictment of TeleTracking executives.

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They’ll be paid $100 million to facilitate the transition back to the CDC.

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One of Bannon’s shell companies then?

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Okay. It made me think of this one.

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Is everyone around Trump daft? How does one square Kushner’s boasts of businessworld savvy and professionalism with this daily dog’s breakfast of derp?

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Oh, so the magic drop from 70K cases/day to less than 50K that began with the transition is about to sharply reverse.

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Let us hope.

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Fine line between incompetence and genocide.

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CDC is working with us right now to build a revolutionary new data system so it can be moved back to the CDC, and they can have that regular accountability with hospitals relevant to treatment and PPE,” Birx told government officials and hospital executives in Arkansas, the Journal reported.

No doubt this is because Tele-Tracking bit off way more than they could chew. Meanwhile, CDC is forced to build a “revolutionary new data system” in the midst of a pandemic. What was wrong with the old system?

It’s chaos piled on top of chaos, built on a foundation of chaos. If the Coronavirus had lips, it would be smiling from spike to spike.

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dunno that I’d use “hope” for a bad-news thing. But I understand the sentiment about better accuracy being important.

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