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CDC data are disappearing

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749 points doener | 2 comments | 01 Feb 25 11:52 UTC | HN request time: 0.42s | source
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cmriversepi ◴[01 Feb 25 14:55 UTC] No.42898753[source]▶
I’m an epidemiology professor and I write a weekly “weather report” outbreaks [1]. These communication and data blackouts are coming at a bad time. We’re having an unusual flu season—activity has rebounded unexpectedly. I’ve been having to scramble for data, last week by visiting each state health department website. It’s really troubling and consequential.

[1] https://caitlinrivers.substack.com

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1. dgacmu ◴[01 Feb 25 21:01 UTC] No.42902270[source]▶
I'm a CS professor who used to write and develop the software behind a daily and weekly Pennsylvania covid report. I get the pain here. It's a messy, incompatible jumble without the CDC.

Would you like me to see if there are some CS folks here to provide programming support to help with what you're doing?

I -hope- this is transient but I'm not holding my breath either.

(feel free to reach out at dga@cs.cmu.edu)

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2. dgacmu ◴[01 Feb 25 23:39 UTC] No.42903753[source]▶
Relieved to see it's back online. Hopefully it remains reliable in both senses of the word.