The CDC will "no longer control" the coronavirus data collection system from hospitals across the nation, an HHS spokesperson says. https://nbcnews.to/3evbBl4 

The NY Times reported Tuesday that the administration had ordered hospitals to bypass the CDC and send all COVID-19 patient info to a central database in Washington beginning Wednesday, raising concerns from health experts that it will be politicized or withheld from the public.

Michael Caputo, assistant secretary for public affairs for HHS, says in a statement to @NBCNews that it would be a faster system.
He says that the CDC has about a one-week lag in reporting hospital data.

"The new faster and complete data system is what our nation needs to defeat the coronavirus and the CDC, an operating division of HHS, will certainly participate in this streamlined all-of-government response," says Caputo. "They will simply no longer control it.”

The Times reported that the HHS database that will receive new info is not open to the public, which could affect researchers, modelers and health officials who rely on CDC data to make projections and decisions.

Caputo told The Times that the CDC would still make data public.