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You will be subject to the destination website's privacy policy when you follow the link. CDC is not responsible for Section compliance accessibility on other federal or private website. The state health departments will provide these data to HHS. Starting on August 1, , laboratories are expected to make every reasonable effort to report required data elements to the appropriate state or local public health department, as required by HHS guidance.
Ordering providers should make every effort to collect this critical information from patients during the specimen collection process and provide it to the laboratories performing the test. The testing site that performs the COVID test is responsible for reporting to the appropriate state or local public health department.
These more stringent requirements must be followed. Exceptions for the performing reporting requirements might include a hospital system that centralizes data, i. Laboratories need to report test results to the state where the individual is temporarily living or visiting. Clinicians and laboratories should contact their state or local public health department directly for more information on reporting requirements and the method for reporting.
Yes, state or local health departments will still accept these data. Public health recognizes this information is not always provided in test orders. However, every effort should be made to collect complete data. If test orders are placed electronically, healthcare facilities and laboratories should ensure that the laboratory test order interface can collect or transfer complete demographic data and answers to AOE questions.
Healthcare facilities and laboratories should work with their electronic health record or laboratory information management system vendors to improve the order processes and information exchange between the healthcare provider and the laboratory. If test orders are not placed electronically, submission forms web based or paper should be updated to include the data elements described in the CARES Act Section guidance pdf icon external icon.
Every effort should be made to collect this information because these data are critical for state and local public health departments to plan and execute COVID control and mitigation efforts. These elements should be collected and be conformant with the HL7 Version 2. Yes, all data related to the AOE questions should be collected and reported to state and local public health departments in the electronic laboratory report messages.
In general, no. Laboratories are not responsible for reporting these data. However, local, tribal, or state health department rules and regulations apply and may differ from this general guidance. Laboratories are not responsible for reporting these data since they do not have the patient-identifying information required to comply with reporting requirements.
What more can the United States do to address the global situation? The United States needs to do a lot more than donating vaccines.
The United States needs to support the expansion of vaccine manufacturing both domestically and abroad. It needs to help build that capacity, provide training for personnel, and relax export restrictions on supplies, reagents, and chemicals that go into manufacturing vaccines. This needs to be a global partnership among the wealthy nations to coordinate all of the responses needed. We need to substantially reduce the burden of disease for humanitarian purposes and reduce transmission of the virus for self-interest to prevent the emergence of variants that could cause outbreaks in the United States.
We are already at a point in the United States where we have a surplus of vaccines. Obviously we expanded eligibility for children 12 to 15 years old, and this will increase our need. To date 1. This needs to be an urgent and collaborative global effort.
Can surplus vaccines be used as booster shots later? I believe that is one of the reasons why there has been some reluctance to donate a large number of doses. Many experts believe we will need them. The question is when. The Biden Administration justifiably has been focused on bringing the pandemic under control in the United States. It does not want to put the United States into a shortage, which I think is reasonable. But the United States still need to be a global leader in addressing global vaccine inequities.
The United States will need to maintain a supply of vaccine for potential booster doses. Now if there is a new variant that is driving the need for additional vaccine doses, we could use the current vaccine as a booster, but we may also need a new vaccine created specifically to target a variant. Pandemic Data Initiative. This is one of the greatest scientific and medical achievements in recent history, but detailed vaccination data reveals that this rollout has not been without its shortcomings.
This demographic data is disappointingly incomplete and rife with sampling biases due to the limited data points for which complete demographic data is available. As we move into , government leaders and public health experts should focus on the collection and dissemination of accurate COVID demographic data as it will be a powerful tool to reduce disease spread and increase vaccine uptake.
Reporting frequency, definitions, and even the types of data released have yet to be standardized and mandated by federal agencies.
Even some leaders have stopped pursuing health and data-driven decision-making in the face of surging COVID cases presenting all-time high case numbers in the United States. With viral variants, particularly Delta and Omicron, responsible for much of the increased spread during , it becomes even more imperative that everyone around the world get vaccinated.
Better data can help us identify areas of need at a national and sub-national level to better distribute resources and craft communication. We will need increased support of sequencing efforts in to continue locating and stopping new, more deadly variants, before they can spread.
In fact, most public health data infrastructure remains in dire need of increased financial and physical support. Staff cannot be expected to focus on data, however essential it may be, when there are not enough hospital beds, PPE, tests, or computers to handle the load.
We need to take this pandemic seriously. It has been an exhausting two years.
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