The problem is especially worrisome in rural areas, where some hospitals are nearing capacity. Since July 7, when 375 people were hospitalized statewide, that number has nearly quadrupled to a peak of 1,465 hospitalizations on Oct. Louis seeing record or near-record spikes. The state reached record levels of hospitalizations several times earlier this month, with every region except St. Missouri also has seen a steady rise in COVID-19 hospitalizations since September. Since the onset of the pandemic, Missouri has cited 164,534 confirmed cases and 2,688 deaths. On Friday, Missouri reported 1,811 new cases of COVID-19, and 31 additional deaths. In Missouri, the loss of accurate hospitalization data comes as confirmed cases continue to rise. Health department representatives in the other states mentioned in the blog didn’t immediately respond to Associated Press requests for comment. A Georgia Department of Public Health spokeswoman said the department was unaware of any problems with its data. We anticipate the issue will be resolved for our Monday update.”Ī spokeswoman for the Wisconsin Department of Health Services said the state’s reporting was accurate, with the number of hospitalizations holding steady for one day, Wednesday, before rising again on Thursday. We did post a notice on our dashboard today to convey that as well. Kansas Department of Health and Environment spokeswoman Kristi Zears confirmed that the “ICU admission data displayed on our website is not current. And it said Georgia, Alabama, and Florida reported only partial updates to hospitalization data. It said Wisconsin’s hospitalization figures stayed unexpectedly flat while other indicators worsened. The project noted that the number of reported intensive care unit patients in Kansas had decreased from 80 to one without explanation. HHS did not immediately respond to phone and email messages seeking comment.īut The COVID Tracking Project said in a blog post that it has “identified five other states with anomalies in their hospitalization figures” that could be tied to the HHS reporting problem.
It wasn’t immediately clear on Friday how many states are impacted since some states rely on their own hospitalization counts, not HHS data collection. Department of Health and Human Services for collecting daily hospitalizations around the country. The note blamed “challenges entering data” to the portal used by the U.S. Since Tuesday, the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Service’s coronavirus dashboard has posted a message that the total number of patients hospitalized for COVID-19 has been underreported since Oct. (AP) - With the number of coronavirus patients requiring hospitalization rising at alarming levels, Missouri and perhaps a handful of other states are unable to post accurate data on COVID-19 dashboards because of a flaw in the federal reporting system.
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