rich 1.0 Action Network https://actionnetwork.org <link href='https://actionnetwork.org/css/style-embed-v3.css' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' /><script src='https://actionnetwork.org/widgets/v6/letter/report-data-on-hospital-onset-sars-cov-2-cases?format=js&source=widget'></script><div id='can-letter-area-report-data-on-hospital-onset-sars-cov-2-cases' style='width: 100%'><!-- this div is the target for our HTML insertion --></div> Teams Human https://actionnetwork.org/groups/teams-human https://actionnetwork.org//images/generic_facebook.jpg Please join me in demanding this crucial information. If you don’t want to use this form, you may submit this letter or your own comment, directly at the White House Contact form: https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/ Thanks, - Chloe Dear President Joe Biden Please require reporting data to the public on hospital acquired SARS-CoV-2 cases for individual facilities. We need to know what hospitals are doing better or worse at meeting their obligations to the public. Many of us have family members who contracted covid in healthcare settings. Some of us have lost those loved ones. Nobody wants to catch a potentially serious disease when we’re in the vulnerable position of already needing medical care. We are told again and again that patients are hospitalized with covid not just for covid, and so you should inform us exactly how and where that is happening. Hospitals can and should be using PPE and air quality engineering controls to prevent nosocomial transmission while providing healthcare. The CDC is advising patients to make personal decisions on risk, but the HHS withholding this data flies in the face of that, as Mia Ives-Rublee explained in the Politico article published June 25th 2022: “Not knowing what the likelihood of getting transmission in the hospital really impacts an individual’s ability to quote unquote ‘make a personal decision’ on their risk levels.” Name the places where patients contracted health-care associated Covid-19. This is a consumer protection issue. This is a workplace safety issue. This is a disability rights issue.   Release the info. References: Politico: Biden officials to keep private the names of hospitals where patients contracted Covid https://www.politico.com/news/2022/06/25/biden-officials-to-keep-private-the-names-of-hospitals-where-patients-contracted-covid-00042378 “Not knowing what the likelihood of getting transmission in the hospital really impacts an individual’s ability to quote unquote ‘make a personal decision’ on their risk levels,” said Mia Ives-Rublee, a disability rights advocate who has a lung condition that makes her more susceptible to Covid. “A majority of voters want HHS to level with us – tell us how much coronavirus is spreading in the particular hospital we go to,” said Matthew Cortland, an immunocompromised disability rights activist who ran a recent poll on the issue for Data for Progress, a left-leaning think tank. Data for Progress conducted a survey of 1,335 likely voters nationally using web panel https://www.filesforprogress.org/datasets/2022/6/dfp_disability_hhs_hospital_onset_toplines.pdf respondents. 66% think HHS should report data on "hospital-onset" coronavirus cases for individual hospitals in addition to the total number of hospital cases in the U.S. WebMd : What is a Nosocomial Infection? https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/what-is-a-nosocomial-infection A nosocomial infection is an infection you get while you’re in the hospital for another reason. It's also called a hospital-acquired infection or a health-care associated infection.‌Patients and healthcare professionals bring germs inside hospitals and pass them to each other. Sometimes, people carry these germs without feeling sick, which means they spread them to others without knowing. If you’re already in the hospital for surgery or another illness, your immune system might be too weak to fight off these germs. https://actionnetwork.org/letters/report-data-on-hospital-onset-sars-cov-2-cases