The end of the covid public health emergency highlights longstanding vulnerabilities of a technologically weak and fractured public health surveillance system.
and authority to the agency to strengthen its ability to collect data. To stop disease outbreaks, the agency must have “line of sight” as to when those infectious threats are sparked,The agency has requested $340 million in next year’s budget for its data modernization efforts, but experts say the program’s
“We will still be able to tell that it’s snowing, even though we’re no longer counting every snowflake,” Shah said.But states control their responses to emerging infectious diseases, with state laws dictating how health data is collected and shared. “That is not an acceptable data system. It improved during the public health emergency for covid,” she said. But “what happens when we have to do this for, name your next, you know, scary pathogen?”
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