COVID-NET: Monitoring COVID-19 Hospitalizations
2 Video Views·Oct 8, 2024
Leveraging an existing surveillance system, the COVID-19-Associated Hospitalization Surveillance Network (COVID-NET) was quickly established in 2020 to respond to the emerging infectious disease and track COVID-19 hospitalizations in the United States. The COVID-NET platform collects important information to better understand the epidemiology of COVID-19, identify people who are at high-risk for severe infection, and inform vaccination policy.
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it's very similar to leveraging flu
servet to monitor the H1N1 pandemic
however that was the same virus it was a
flu virus having a system in place that
we could stand up Co net around was
really powerful I think we would as a
country would have been more flat-footed
in our response than people may say we
already were if we didn't have something
like Co net able to be stood up within a
month by the time we knew Co was
circulating in New Y us to the time we
actually stood up Co net it was
essentially 1 month which is enormously
fast for creating a national network
that's going to track hospitalizations
from this new virus it was in it was
remarkable that it was able to be done
that quickly and it's proven enormously
influential
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