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>The Trump administration has altered reporting guidelines for hospitals handling Covid-19 patients, asking them to directly send their data to the state or the HHS — bypassing the CDC — and it is also pushing governors to consider

using the National Guard at hospitals to help collect the data

Great idea.

>“Given our track record of being cooperative to evolving data requests, it’s perplexing that the possibility of using the National Guard has been suggested,” said Rick Pollack,

president of the American Hospital Association

>, told the Washington Post. “It makes no sense. Certainly the expertise of the National Guard can be used in a more productive way.”

All the more reason to do it.