Hospitalization data flawed in Missouri, perhaps elsewhere

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Missouri's health department says its number of hospitalized patients has been underreported since Oct. 17 because of a flaw in the federal reporting system. The COVID Tracking Project says 5 other states have 'anomalies in their hospitalization figures.'

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FILE - In this April 16, 2020 file photo, registered medical assistant Elaine Lomax handles a nasal swab specimen after it was collected at a drive-thru COVID-19 testing site in St. Louis. With the number of coronavirus patients requiring hospitalization rising at alarming levels, Missouri and perhaps at least a handful of other states are unable to post accurate data on COVID-19 dashboards because of a flaw in the federal reporting system.

Since Tuesday, the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Service’s coronavirus dashboard has posted a message that the total number of patients hospitalized for COVID-19 has been underreported since Oct. 17. The note blamed “challenges entering data” to the portal used by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for collecting daily hospitalizations around the country.

A spokeswoman for the Wisconsin Department of Health Services said the state’s reporting was accurate, with the number of hospitalizations holding steady for one day, Wednesday, before rising again on Thursday. A Georgia Department of Public Health spokeswoman said the department was unaware of any problems with its data. Health department representatives in the other states mentioned in the blog didn’t immediately respond to Associated Press requests for comment.

The problem is especially worrisome in rural areas, where some hospitals are nearing capacity. Others are using makeshift buildings or previously vacant hospital wings to serve overflow patients. Some are simply redirecting people to larger hospitals.State health department spokeswoman Lisa Cox said the federal hospital reporting system, known as TeleTracking, went down.

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cryborg And no military numbers included.

A 'flaw in the system'. Yep, sounds legit.

morgfair Trump said if we test less, we'll have less infections. Guess if we test less for pregnancy, we'll have less children.

morgfair Did they report it to realDonaldTrump?

It’s not a flaw, it is an order from their boss

Don't worry, covid is no big deal. It is no. 19 as the biggest killer in the UK. There are worse things out there... 18 at least....

COMMUNIST TRASH

Covid will go away Nov 4th

Worldometer Covid-19 deaths in the United States of America is now 229,224 as of 7: 15 PM.

Not to mention the uptick in pneumonia . Just another coincidence

You can't spell anomolies without lies ...

The actual number of deaths in the US has been under-reported for months. The actual (you can't sweep it under the rug) death-rate puts it at 300,000.

OxyContin maker Purdue has agreed to a settlement worth more than $8 billion to resolve a federal probe of its Why not also investigate who makes CBD, marijuana, cannabis, SF180 Brain pill, those damages people even worse

Imagine with under reported numbers over 220,000 people are confirmed dead 😢

CDC clearly states 'Masks Do Not Work'

This has Trump's influence all over it.

In the age of Trump there’s lying going on about numbers that would hurt him? NO!

Yes and CDC just took 48,000 off the dead list from COVID to heartache and and 30 to 40K off over other causes of death

Living in a red State must be similar to living in Russia in many respects.

LameDuckDonald

Trump told them keep numbers low

“Turning a corner”

Now do over reporting by states.

An independent study showed deaths up 300,000 from the same time last year.

Oops!.. Trump did it again -- So I SAID TO MY PEOPLE 'SLOW THE COVID TESTING DOWN'

It's because we have a Republican Governor in a super close race for reelection. There, that's the true reason.

All Republican ran states are doing this I would assume , as if the truth won’t come out eventually and these murderers will be held accountable !

I guess I was assuming Trump wanted the numbers to be MORE accurate. Huh.

Missouri...

Trump ‘streamlined ‘ the reporting process and this is the result ...

No surprise. TrumpLies

We should totally put the Feds in charge of our healthcare.

Stop scaring the people and stop interfering with the election fake news AP

Hum.... which other states?

Robert E. Anomaly

That’s horrible but getting extra federal money due to a hang mail under COVID

'oops'.... Not!

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