Trump administration will require nursing homes to report Covid-19 cases

American nursing homes will now be required to report coronavirus cases directly to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as well as to patients and their families, CMS Administrator Seema Verma said Sunday.

The directive from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services mark a significant change in practice. The CDC has not formally tracked the number of Covid-19 cases that spread inside homes for vulnerable elderly patients. Thousands have died.“It's important that patients and their families have the information that they need, and they need to understand what's going on in the nursing home,” Verma said at the evening White House briefing.

“As we reopen the United States, our surveillance effort around the Covid virus will also begin in nursing homes," Verma said. "This will support CDC's efforts to have surveillance around the country and to support efforts around contact tracing" in communities where the virus spread began in long -term care facilities, she added.

A combined lack of preparedness, inadequate testing capacity over the past few months and early misunderstanding of how the virus could spreadIn New York, for example,

This is outrageous! Nursing homes are clear hot spots but Everyone should be required to report to CDC. Data is critical in public health responses. The Trump Administration should have ordered reporting months ago! These people are cretins!!!!

Shame on Trump's administration for only now attempting to track c19 cases and mortality in nursing homes.

They should be required to publicly report them.

They need to report them elsewhere also, as I don’t trust any of Trump’s departments to be truthful.

About time!

Two months later? Too late too many have died. Poor response by the president WhiteHouse

JUST IN TIME FOR DONNY BEING ADMITTED TO ONE😆😆😆😆😆

Well done maddow for shining a light in this very important aspect of outlet American COVID tragedy’s

If you can get them to answer the phone.

Thank you maddow !!!!!

Not exactly the, ‘places for mom’ advertising, is it.

Mandatory surveillance for sheer epidemic magnitude and future policy intervention.

You can thank maddow for that, no doubt!! Thank you Rachel!!

What, so the CDC can hide the numbers?

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