Tracking COVID-19 in the United States With Surveillance of Aggregate Cases and Deaths.

ABSTRACT: Early during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) leveraged an existing surveillance system infrastructure to monitor COVID-19 cases and deaths in the United States. Given the time needed to report individual-level (also called line-level) COVID-19 case and death data containing detailed information from individual case reports, CDC designed and implemented a new aggregate case surveillance system to inform emergency response decisions more efficiently, with timelier indicators of emerging areas of concern. We describe the processes implemented by CDC to operationalize this novel, multifaceted aggregate surveillance system for collecting COVID-19 case and death data to track the spread and impact of the SARS-CoV-2 virus at national, state, and county

SUBMITTER: Khan D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10040484 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature