Internal Documents Reveal Covid-19 Data Government Keeps Hidden

There used to be an agency assigned to collecting, analyzing, and publishing this information but that was changed in July by the administration in order to reduce the influence of the CDC and publication of negative information about the COVID-19 pandemic. From the article:

"It's very challenging for states to get the multistate view of things," she says. "It's just a lot easier when there's a knowledgeable third-party who can pull the data together, make them consistent across states and actually tell the story of what the information shows." Typically, she says, this role would be fulfilled by the CDC, but the agency was stripped of its role in collecting COVID-19 hospital data in July.

Sensationalist headline, but the article doesn't reveal the data either, and it's not about misrepresentation:

more than 800 state-level employees have access to the daily hospitalization data it gathers, but only for their own state, unless another state grants them permission to view its data. Without a larger view into national or regional data, some states — like Tennessee, which has eight bordering states — are missing out on valuable regional data

Who are they keeping this "hidden" from?

"The documents — reports sent to agency staffers..."