What the COVID-19 Pandemic Has Reinforced: The Need for Accurate Data

Simone Arvisais-Anhalt; Christoph U Lehmann; Jason Y Park; Ellen Araj; Michael Holcomb; Andrew R Jamieson; Samuel McDonald; Richard J Medford; Trish M Perl; Seth M Toomay; Amy E Hughes; Melissa L McPheeters; Mujeeb Basit

doi:10.1093/cid/ciaa1686

. 2020 Nov 4:ciaa1686. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciaa1686

What the COVID-19 Pandemic Has Reinforced: The Need for Accurate Data

Simone Arvisais-Anhalt ^1,^✉, Christoph U Lehmann ^2,^3,^4,⁵, Jason Y Park ^1,⁶, Ellen Araj ¹, Michael Holcomb ⁴, Andrew R Jamieson ⁴, Samuel McDonald ^2,⁷, Richard J Medford ^8,², Trish M Perl ⁸, Seth M Toomay ⁹, Amy E Hughes ⁵, Melissa L McPheeters ^10,^11,¹², Mujeeb Basit ^2,¹³

PMCID: PMC7665390 PMID: 33146707

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged the United States’ existing national public health informatics infrastructure. This report details the factors that have contributed to COVID-19 data inaccuracies and reporting delays and their effect on the modeling and monitoring of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Keywords: COVID-19, data modeling, public health informatics, information technology infrastructure, data integrity

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What the COVID-19 Pandemic Has Reinforced: The Need for Accurate Data

Simone Arvisais-Anhalt, MD

Christoph U Lehmann, MD

Jason Y Park, MD, PhD

Ellen Araj, MD

Michael Holcomb, MS

Andrew R Jamieson, PhD

Samuel McDonald, MD, MS

Richard J Medford, MD

Trish M Perl, MD, MSc

Seth M Toomay, MD

Amy E Hughes, PhD

Melissa L McPheeters, PhD, MPH

Mujeeb Basit, MD

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What the COVID-19 Pandemic Has Reinforced: The Need for Accurate Data

Simone Arvisais-Anhalt, MD

Christoph U Lehmann, MD

Jason Y Park, MD, PhD

Ellen Araj, MD

Michael Holcomb, MS

Andrew R Jamieson, PhD

Samuel McDonald, MD, MS

Richard J Medford, MD

Trish M Perl, MD, MSc

Seth M Toomay, MD

Amy E Hughes, PhD

Melissa L McPheeters, PhD, MPH

Mujeeb Basit, MD

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