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New @nytimes reporting shows widespread difficulties in collecting coronavirus data.

We asked FEMA and HHS for a spreadsheet reportedly used to track the utilization of hospital beds, ICUs, and ventilators. Neither agency had the records.

nytimes.com/2020/06/03/us/…
HHS told us that FEMA was maintaining the list. Then FEMA said it also had no such records.

This is the response we received from the HHS: “The records you seek fall under the purview of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.”

americanoversight.org/document/rejec…
This is the response we got from FEMA, specifically from the National Response Coordination Center and the Office of Response and Recovery. It was “unable to locate or identify any responsive records.”

americanoversight.org/document/no-re…
This is especially puzzling because FEMA previously posted an HHS letter on their website describing the data that entities are supposed to be adding to this collection effort.

fema.gov/news-release/2…
The Daily Beast reported on the spreadsheet in March 2020.

thedailybeast.com/fema-tells-sta…
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