美国疫情数据报送绕过疾控中心引发卫生专家担忧_时事

美国疫情数据报送绕过疾控中心引发卫生专家担忧

据外媒报道，美国政府已下令各医院绕过美国疾病控制和预防中心，从7月15日开始将所有新冠肺炎患者的数据发送到华盛顿的一个中央数据库。这一举动引起了美国卫生专家的警觉，他们担心，这些疫情数据会被政治化，或对公众隐瞒。而就在美国政府“接管”新冠肺炎疫情数据后，美国疾病控制和预防中心网站上的一些数据已被删除。

美国疫情数据报送绕过疾控中心引发卫生专家担忧1 A shopper wearing a protective mask tries on clothes at a retail store following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in New York City, New York, US, July 5, 2020. [Photo/Agencies]

Hospital data on coronavirus patients will now be rerouted to the Trump administration instead of first being sent to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Department of Health and Human Services confirmed to CNN on Tuesday.

美国卫生与公众服务部本周二 The move could make data less transparent to the public at a time when the administration is downplaying the spread of the pandemic, and threatens to undermine public confidence that medical data is being presented free of political interference.

在美国政府对疫情传播不予重视之际，此举可能使数据对公众更加不透明，并可能破坏公众对医疗数据不受政治干预的信心。

Michael Caputo, the assistant secretary for public affairs at the department, confirmed the change first reported by The New York Times earlier in the day, saying in a statement that the "new faster and complete data system is what our nation needs to defeat the coronavirus and the CDC, an operating division of HHS, will certainly participate in this streamlined all-of-government response. They will simply no longer control it."