CDC Can't Even Manage a Web Site

[Rick C]

The CDC provides numbers that no one else does, infection counts adjusted to the estimated date of infection. I thought that might be a better estimate of the progress of this disease and even more interesting information on how these numbers progress. However, the CDC doesn't post the information on the weekends and the data for those days is lost. I saw one day where the numbers barely changed from the day before. Now, the numbers which should include the entire weekend have not changed at all. The chart was updated around noon, but at 2 pm the site is still displaying the out of date data.

WTF???!!! The leading US government resource for information on this disease can't even manage to process and display basic data on it? Ok, maybe that explains a few things.

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[Bill Sloman]

On Tuesday, March 31, 2020 at 4:54:09 AM UTC+11, Rick C wrote:

The CDC provides numbers that no one else does, infection counts adjusted to the estimated date of infection. I thought that might be a better estimate of the progress of this disease and even more interesting information on how these numbers progress. However, the CDC doesn't post the information on the weekends and the data for those days is lost. I saw one day where the numbers barely changed from the day before. Now, the numbers which should include the entire weekend have not changed at all. The chart was updated around noon, but at 2 pm the site is still displaying the out of date data.

WTF???!!! The leading US government resource for information on this disease can't even manage to process and display basic data on it? Ok, maybe that explains a few things.

Trump didn't manage to get CDC defunded - Congress got in the way - but Trump's habit of giving high-level appointments to people who could exploit their position for commercial advantage is well known.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Pruitt

It's possible that whoever is responsible for managing CDC's communications with the public isn't going to be all that good at that aspect of their job.

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Bill Sloman, Sydney