Trump Administration Plans to Repeal Weekly Nursing Home Covid Reporting, Undoing 2025 Rule
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Updated · The New York Times · Sep 23
Trump Administration Plans to Repeal Weekly Nursing Home Covid Reporting, Undoing 2025 Rule
3 articles · Updated · The New York Times · Sep 23
Summary
Weekly reporting of Covid, flu and RSV cases in nursing homes would end under a draft Trump administration rule that would roll back a pandemic-era monitoring system made permanent in January 2025.
The proposal sides with industry complaints that the reporting requirement is burdensome, reversing a Biden-era policy created after thousands of nursing home residents died during the pandemic.
CMS would lose a regular stream of infection data used to track outbreaks and spot problems in facilities where elderly residents live in close quarters and face high risks from respiratory disease.
Resident advocates condemned the plan, warning it would leave regulators less able to monitor infection control as the administration also scales back health-data updates elsewhere, including at the CDC.