Hospitals told to send coronavirus data to Washington, not CDC

"The new faster and complete data system is what our nation needs to defeat the coronavirus," Department of Health and Human Services official says.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will "no longer control" the coronavirus data collection system from hospitals across the nation, a spokesman for U.S. Health and Human Services confirmed Tuesday night.

The New York Times reported earlier Tuesday that the administration had ordered hospitals to bypass the CDC and send all COVID-19 patient information to a central database in Washington beginning Wednesday, raising concerns from...