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The Trump administration is requiring hospitals to report COVID-19 data to a new system, sidestepping the CDC.

White House Strips CDC Of Data Collection Role For COVID-19 Hospitalizations

4:48pm July 15, 2020

The Trump administration is directing hospitals to use a new platform to report COVID-19 data instead of an existing system at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

A letter from current CDC staff recently submitted to Director Robert Redfield demands that the agency address structural racism toward Black employees.

CDC Employees Call Out Agency's 'Toxic Culture Of Racial Aggressions'

6:20pm July 13, 2020

Pointing to the pandemic's disproportionate toll on people of color, over 1,200 workers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention call on the agency to declare racism a public health crisis.

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A CDC entry on social distancing had originally recommended suspending or reducing the use of singing and choirs in church services. The entry was later revised, and the warning about choirs was removed.

CDC Quickly Changed Its Guidance On Limiting Choirs At Religious Services

6:18pm May 29, 2020

by Bill Chappell

A federal official says the White House had not approved the initial version, which included the warning, "The act of singing may contribute to transmission of COVID-19."

Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, says a new analysis supports the effectiveness of the CDC's system for spotting infectious disease outbreaks early.

Health & Safety

CDC Director Says New Analysis Exonerates Agency On Testing Delay

4:57pm May 29, 2020

by Rob Stein

CDC chief Robert Redfield says that earlier testing for the coronavirus would have been like "looking for a needle in a haystack." But other health experts dispute his assertion.

Manager Mike Bonavita wears a protective mask as he cleans windows at the Quattro Italian restaurant in Boston on May 12 during the coronavirus pandemic. This month, Massachusetts' governor declared wearing masks mandatory.

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The Battle Between The Masked And The Masked-Nots Unveils Political Rifts

5:30am May 29, 2020

by Tovia Smith

Wearing a mask has become political as some state officials have faced backlash for mandating mask use during the coronavirus pandemic.

New Guidelines Make Pool Season A Different Experience

6:39am May 26, 2020

by Keri Brown

Swimming pools are now allowed to open as part of North Carolina's Phase 2 process.

President Trump's administration "is obsessed with magic bullets — vaccines, new medicines, or a hope that the virus will simply disappear," The Lancet says. Trump and CDC Director Robert Redfield attended a coronavirus task force briefing at the White

Replace Trump And Bolster The CDC, A Leading Medical Journal Urges

2:00pm May 15, 2020

by Bill Chappell

The Trump administration has mounted an "inconsistent and incoherent national response" to the COVID-19 pandemic by injecting politics into public health policy, The Lancet says.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released flowchart-like decision tools on Thursday designed to guide businesses, schools, mass transit and other organizations through the process of reopening.

Health & Safety

CDC Issues Decision Tools To Guide Reopening Of Schools, Businesses, Transit

8:34pm May 14, 2020

by Hannah Hagemann

The flowchart-like documents released by the CDC ask businesses, schools and workplaces to first and foremost to consider whether reopening is consistent with state and local stay-at-home orders.

President Trump has said he wants to see the country begin to reopen. The pandemic crashed the economy by keeping people at home, leading to millions of job losses.

White House Rejected 'Overly Prescriptive' CDC Guidance For Reopening Communities

3:28pm May 07, 2020

The CDC developed detailed rules for child care centers, schools, camps, restaurants, churches and mass transit. The White House coronavirus task force said the draft guidance went too far.

Hundreds of workers tested positive for COVID-19 at a Smithfield Foods hog-processing plant in Sioux Falls, S.D.

U.S. Workplace Safety Rules Missing In The Pandemic

6:50pm May 01, 2020

by Scott Horsley

Some businesses and employee advocates say they're not getting much help from the federal government to ensure workers' safety from the coronavirus pandemic.

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