The National Governors Association (NGA) was pleased to welcome Governors’ staff from 32 states and four territories to the annual Health and Human Services Policy Advisors Institute in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, October 2-3.
Inaccurate Death Records Obscure Pandemic’s True Story
Overwhelmed public health departments and front-line workers have for months failed to record accurate health histories for COVID-19 victims, a review of California’s internal pandemic death records found.
May 03, 2021 • (TNS) - When California looks back on the COVID-19 pandemic the most significant health crisis in modern history, with tens of thousands of deaths so far medical researchers will find some of the most basic details remarkably incomplete.
Overwhelmed public health departments and front-line workers have for months failed to record accurate health histories for COVID-19 victims, a Sacramento Bee review of the state s internal pandemic death records found.
It s shocking. How inaccurate California death records obscure pandemic s true story
Sacramento Bee 2 hrs ago Jason Pohl, Ryan Sabalow, and Phillip Reese, The Sacramento Bee
May 3 When California looks back on the COVID-19 pandemic the most significant health crisis in modern history, with tens of thousands of deaths so far medical researchers will find some of the most basic details remarkably incomplete.
Overwhelmed public health departments and front-line workers have for months failed to record accurate health histories for COVID-19 victims, a Sacramento Bee review of the state s internal pandemic death records found.
The records show a Fresno County man in his 60s died of COVID-19 with an otherwise clean medical history. But that s not necessarily because he didn t have underlying conditions that contributed to his death; more likely, no one bothered to enter those conditions into a state disease surveillance database.
California’s COVID-19 Data Is Inaccurate and Incomplete
The state’s disease information dashboard could have been a resource to identify at-risk communities and help better understand the virus’ spread, but a review has found that the data is incomplete, revealing inequities.
May 03, 2021 • (TNS) When California looks back on the COVID-19 pandemic the most significant health crisis in modern history, with tens of thousands of deaths so far medical researchers will find some of the most basic details remarkably incomplete.
Overwhelmed public health departments and front-line workers have for months failed to record accurate health histories for COVID-19 victims, a