HHS OIG Releases Report on COVID Problems

It's not hard to find distressing COVID-19 news.*

But in addition, HHS OIG has released a new 41 page report on problems US hospitals were experiencing based on an interview period of March 23-26.

• The OIG report is here.
• Trade press coverage April 6 at MedCityNews, here.  Endpoints here.

In other news April 6, the open-access British newspaper The Guardian ran an article on impending closures of small US rural hospitals that simply run out of funds (to buy supplies or pay staff) under pandemic stress.  Here.

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*One website for national and international COVID epidemiology is:
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/