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Off the rails
And plummeting.
America's #COVID19 data remains horribly screwed up since the #Trump admin stripped responsibility from @CDCgov & let a private company, Palantir Tech, take over. And who is Palantir? Yikes.
— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett)
7:02 PM • Jul 29, 2020
US hospitals were ordered to stop reporting data to the CDC and begin sending it to Palantir as of July 15. Coincidentally, new infections - which had been sharply rising - peaked on July 16. It’s probably fine.