Bad data? Fix it, don’t scrap it. Even when it’s about a pandemic.

Bad data? Fix it, don’t scrap it. Even when it’s about a pandemic.

Trump now says hospitals should send patient information to a database in the Department of Health and Human Services, bypassing the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). This will doubtless be followed by complaints about it being bad data, after which they’ll cut off access to the data — data which at the CDC was publicly…