Where to get reliable COVID-19 data, now that the CDC doesn’t have it
Masks are just one tool against the pandemic — another crucial one is data. (Macau Photo Agency/Unsplash/)Follow all of PopSci’s COVID-19 coverage here, including tips on cleaning groceries, ways to tell if your symptoms are just allergies, and a tutorial on making your own mask.Under the guise of streamlining data, the Trump administration has moved previously available COVID data on hospitalizations out of the public eye. Starting on Wednesday, all hospitals are under orders to bypass the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and instead report directly to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which will be compiling the data into a single database. But that database won’t be available to the public.Since the uproar over this removal, the CDC has said it will put the existing data back online. But as of Friday morning, all that’s gone back up is hospitalization data through July 14. There’s...