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Sunday, Jul 25 2021
State Medical Director and Epidemiologist Dr. Caitlin Pedati asserted that publicly available information about coronavirus cases in Iowa nursing homes is “pretty similar” to what was long disclosed on the state’s official COVID-19 website.
Pedati made the false claim during a wide-ranging interview with Andy Kopsa of Iowa Watch, conducted soon after the state switched from daily to weekly updates on coronavirus.iowa.gov. As part of the revamp, officials removed a page that had shown current outbreaks in long term care facilities.
STATE LONG TERM CARE DATA, THEN AND NOW
Near the 33-minute mark of Kopsa’s interview with Pedati (partly transcribed here), the journalist asked about the website changes: “Am I understanding the reporting correctly, that there’s not going to be any sort of notification of long term care facility outbreaks?”