"Millions of COVID-19 reinfections have been reported across the country yet just 11 states confirmed they are actively tracking them, according to an ABC News analysis.
"At least 18 states used to track infections but stopped once the public health emergency ended in May 2023.
"Experts said it's also labor-intensive and requires a lot of manpower to count and keep track of reinfection data.
"Additionally, the stoppage of reinfection counting could be due to pandemic fatigue and a desire to return to normal or at least a sense of normalcy.
"'There's been a real desire by everyone to return to a state of normal and so as long as we are heavily tracking and reporting COVID numbers, things are not feeling normal,' Dr. Ashley Drews, Houston Methodist medical director of infection prevention and control, told ABC News."
I'm sorry, but that's a pretty pathetic excuse that reflects a complete dereliction of duty!
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And since we can no longer trust the CDC and other agencies to provide the COVID tracking and data we need, Dr Jeremy Faust and Inside Medicine data guru Benjy Renton have decided to do this for us!
"We put together a one-stop shop dashboard for Covid-19 metrics that you can check at any time for thousands of US jurisdictions. We have wastewater levels (which has become the best metric for tracking virus levels), hospitalization rates and capacities, intensive care unit census data, death rates, and some testing data (nationally)."
Congratulations, Dr.Faust -- and thanks!
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