Earlier this week, critical data on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's website vanished without a trace.<br />According to HuffPost, the data concerned the availability of ICU and hospital beds around the country.<br />The policy change also had an immediate impact on independent researchers who use the data to track and forecast the toll of the virus across the country.<br />Likewise, doctors and hospital administrators were blindsided, as they track the data to prepare for coming waves of COVID-19 hospitalizations.<br />The Trump administration claims the problem will be fixed and insists the goal of the change was to get more data, not less, out to the public.<br />But the administration opted to keep to itself the chilling news that 18 states are in the “red zone” for COVID-19 cases, with more than 100 per 100,000 people last week.
