Teaser - The Pandemic and the Fantasy of Governing Through Statistics (05/13/24)

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🗓️ 14 May 2024

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Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/104189586 Beatrice, Artie, Phil and Abby discuss how, as of May 1st, hospitals in the US are no longer required to report covid hospitalization data to the federal government, the enormous information gap that leaves in an already opaque covid data landscape, and the set of questions the pandemic has raised about the complicated relationship between the state and scientific knowledge production, namely: of what use is data we don’t act on? Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Find Jules' new book here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny Runtime 1:13:56, 13 May 2024

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0:00.0	To hear the full episode, become a patron at patreon.com slash death panel pod.
0:06.3	Welcome to the death panel.
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0:19.7	If you'd like to help us out a little bit more, share the show with your friends, post about your favorite episodes, pick up copies of health communism and a short history of trans misogyny at your local bookstore, or request them at your local library and follow us at Death Panel underscore. I'm Beechis Adler Bolton, and today I'm here with my co-hosts, Artie Verkant.
0:39.5	Hello.
0:40.1	Bill Rocco.
0:41.0	Hey.
0:41.5	And Abby Cardis.
0:42.8	Hello.
0:43.5	Today, the four of us are going to check in on the latest updates around COVID data
0:47.3	and the project that we have long chronicled on this show of the Biden administration
0:51.9	burying or obscuring COVID data, making our picture of the
0:55.7	pandemic increasingly difficult to capture. Major changes in COVID data reporting have just
1:00.8	happened that we're about to break down. Mandated COVID hospitalization reporting was
1:05.3	quietly sunsetted at the end of April. May 1st is the first day that COVID hospitalization
1:10.2	reporting became optional,
1:12.2	and hospitals starting in May no longer have to report data on admissions, occupancy,
1:17.3	and other indicators of possible system stress from respiratory diseases to federal officials.
1:22.6	It's worth noting that this includes other respiratory diseases beyond COVID, like flu and RSV, and is occurring as
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