FAQ: COVID-19 Data and Surveillance: Frequently Asked Questions: June 3, 2020

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (U.S.). Division of Viral Diseases. ; United States. Department of Homeland Security. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency‏.
• Description:
  Updated June 3, 2020
  
  Public health surveillance is the ongoing, systematic collection, analysis, and interpretation of health-related data essential to planning, implementation, and evaluation of public health practice.
  
  For surveillance of COVID-19, and the virus that causes it, SARS-COV-2, CDC is using multiple surveillance systems run in collaboration with state, local, territorial, and academic partners to monitor COVID-19 disease in the United States. COVID-19 surveillance draws from a combination of data sources from existing influenza and viral respiratory disease surveillance, syndromic surveillance, case reporting, commercial lab reporting, the healthcare safety system, ongoing research platforms, and other new systems designed to answer specific questions. These systems, combined, create an updated, accurate picture of SARS-COV-2 spread and its effects in the United States and provide data used to inform the U.S. national public health response to COVID-19.
  
  CDC COVID-19 Surveillance -- Understanding the Data -- Surveillance Reports -- CDC COVID Data Tracker.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Coronavirus Infections COVID-19 Pandemics Public Health Surveillance
• Series:
  Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
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  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
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