With the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) over for more than a month, it’s not surprising that the feds have relocated or stopped tracking some data.
Details: As the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updates its COVID resources, you should expect changes. For example, the agency will still track hospital admissions numbers and patients presenting to emergency departments with the virus; however, it’s using a different metric to determine death statistics, the CDC says on its website.
Three things have been removed from the data repository including:
COVID-19 case data. The CDC has removed this...
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