Ron Johnson blasts CDC for withholding COVID-19 hospitalization data from public

Published March 2, 2022 12:00am ET



Sen. Ron Johnson put the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on notice in a letter Tuesday for the agency’s “disturbing and shameful” lack of transparency surrounding COVID-19 data.

The CDC has published only a small portion of the data it has collected on COVID-19 hospitalizations, vaccines, and wastewater analyses in part because the agency feared the information might have been misinterpreted by the public, the New York Times reported in February.

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