The task force’s hospital data will now only include confirmed COVID-19 admissions with the additional affected data points to include total hospitalizations, daily ICU patients and the number of patients on ventilators, according to the report.
The commission also reports COVID-19 patient discharges. Head of the task force Alex Garza, MD, said that its charts will be a “much more accurate representation of the data” after the change.
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