Thread by @maolesen

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US. This is disturbing. This is a graph of total IP beds, occupied beds, and COVID beds (L axis). The number of hospitals reporting this data are the black dotted lines (R axis).

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The solid red line is the number of hospital acquired COVID cases. The dotted red lines are the number of hospitals reporting HAI COVID and COVID cases overall (all R axis). Look at the drop in the number reporting.

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Given the steep drop, I somewhat suspect that the CDC is no longer requiring this data to be reported.

4- This while:

a. "CDC/HICPAC proposes 3 levels of aerosol protection. Commentators disagreed with that approach because it maintains existing recommendations that reserve N95 respirators for only select pathogens."

infectioncontroltoday.com/view/one-step-…

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b. "CDC/HICPAC continued to propagate watered-down crisis standards by proposing only a minimal standard for infection control programs."

c. "CDC/HICPAC did not discuss updates for source control recommendations that would reflect the lessons learned...

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...from the COVID-19 pandemic. Source control is essential to prevent respiratory virus transmission, especially for viruses with significant presymptomatic transmission, such as influenza and SARS-CoV-2. This is especially important for children and people with...

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...disabilities who cannot wear masks and immunocompromised individuals."

I guess if the data is hidden, it doesn't exist, right? 😡