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June 29, 2020

As virus grows, governors rely on misleading hospital data

  • In large states, individual hospitals can be in crisis mode even while the overall capacity numbers look OK.
    • By JIM SALTER and LINDSEY TANNER
    Associated Press

    Governors in places seeing huge spikes in coronavirus infections often cite statewide data to assure the public they have plenty of hospital capacity to survive the onslaught, even as the states routinely miss the critical benchmarks to guide their pandemic response.

    Public health officials and experts say the heavy reliance on statewide hospital data is a misleading and sometimes irresponsible metric to justify keeping a state open or holding back on imposing new limits.


     
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