NEW: South Carolina, which doesn’t require hospitals to disclose measles-related admissions, has reported only 20 such hospitalizations since Oct. 2.

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NEW: South Carolina, which doesn’t require hospitals to disclose measles-related admissions, has reported only 20 such hospitalizations since Oct. 2.

That leaves doctors with an incomplete picture of how the outbreak is affecting the community.

https://www.propublica.org/article/south-carolina-measles-hospital-admissions?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-mastodon-post&utm_content=2-20

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[waltwooton@spartanburg.social]

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@ben

This could be determined from ICD10 codes in hospital discharge data.

This is not considered public in South Carolina (as it is — of was? — in Florida) . It would be a good test FOI case and provide a wealth of reporting.

I don't know how current this data is. There is a way to query the data online, but I am unfamiliar with it.

More here:

https://rfa.sc.gov/data-research/healthcare

[cpurdy@mastodon.social]

@ProPublica This administration and its supporters are seriously going to be the death of us all.

[drjay@mastodon.energy]

@ProPublica It's the opposite of former NYC mayor Ed Koch's mantra "what gets measured gets improved". If you don't measure it, then you can ignore the problem.

[huntingdon@mstdn.social]

@ProPublica

Bob Kennedy was/is counting on this sort of fractured state-dominated public health structure to implement his destructive policies with less notice and accountability than he and his hench-idiots deserve.

[rusty__shackleford@mastodon.social]

@ProPublica
How annoying that I have to sanitize this tracking parasite from your url before a visit.
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[fratermus@vmst.io]

@DrJay @ProPublica Cf. ‘If we stop testing [for Covid] right now, we’d have very few cases, if any’ -- Orangeymandias