Bloomberg reported:

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention plans to simplify the COVID-19 hospital data it collects as the demands of the pandemic evolve and some assembled information has become outdated or redundant.

The agency is likely to stop collecting data from hospitals on suspected COVID cases that haven't been confirmed by tests, for example, and may also wind down federal reporting from rehabilitation and mental health facilities that aren't major intake points for virus cases, according to a draft of the plan that was viewed by Bloomberg News.

The agency is also suggesting that the U.S. stop collecting COVID vaccination data from hospitals because it isn't required to be reported, isn't widely used and hospital workers are required to report their vaccine status via a different mechanism.

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