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Cases, Data, and Surveillance

CDC is aggressively responding to the global outbreak of COVID-19 and preparing for the potential of community spread in the United States. 2019 Novel Coronavirus

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CDC COVID-19 Data

CDC reports COVID-19 case counts, deaths, and laboratory testing numbers daily online. Data dependent on jurisdictions’ timely and accurate reporting. 2019 Novel Coronavirus

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COVID-19 Data Sources

Additional CDC COVID-related data is supplied by the National Center for Health Statistics, National Environmental Public Health Tracking Network, and Wastewater Surveillance. 2019 Novel Coronavirus

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Extracting accurate COVID data from scanned forms

by Paul Govern Clinical teams at Vanderbilt University Medical Center use electronic forms for patient intake, but for various operational reasons, teams devoted to COVID outpatient intake used paper assessment forms. The forms, each with 141 fields, were scanned into the electronic health record upon completion. While these files served clinical documentation purposes, they might…