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TexasTowelie

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Fri Jul 2, 2021, 03:24 AM Jul 2021

Nebraska takes down COVID dashboard, stops reporting virus numbers

Nebraska has stopped reporting coronavirus numbers.

The state Department of Health and Human Services said Wednesday that it planned to retire the online dashboard that it has used to report statistics on the coronavirus pandemic for more than a year. By Thursday, the webpage was gone.

The current state virus emergency also expired expire on Wednesday, at which time Nebraska eliminated the last few social distancing guidelines that remained in place.

State officials said data on the pandemic will still be available through public records requests, and they said statistics on the spread of the coronavirus are available from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

As of its final update Wednesday, the state had reported 224,488 virus cases and 2,261 deaths linked to COVID-19 since the pandemic began.

Read more: https://journalstar.com/lifestyles/health-med-fit/nebraska-takes-down-covid-dashboard-stops-reporting-virus-numbers/article_b1405423-b58a-572d-b2ca-d3d09d83b99f.html
(Lincoln Journal Star)

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Nebraska takes down COVID dashboard, stops reporting virus numbers (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jul 2021 OP
Tick... tick... tick... C_U_L8R Jul 2021 #1
The timing is convenient. TexasTowelie Jul 2021 #2
Denial is the most effective way of dealing with inconvenient facts. n/t King_Klonopin Jul 2021 #3
Time to monitor reports of patient transfers nitpicker Jul 2021 #4
Florida did this awhile back ... SarcasticSatyr Jul 2021 #5
Well, that's that then. tanyev Jul 2021 #6
reQublicans are real liberal with their "Nothing To See Here" bullshit. KS Toronado Jul 2021 #7
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