Days after hospitals were told to stop sending information to CDC, all the fears appear justified

Controlling the flow of scientific information is the stuff of authoritarian regimes, not the US:

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/7/16/1961226/-Hospitals-are-still-sending-in-data-on-COVID-19-but-it-s-no-longer-visible-outside-the-White-House