Oh, me?

Just sitting here, wondering how much GISAID data for the U.S. there will be from late January forward. (Raj's dashboard last shows data through the 17th.)

Aware that #CDC long ago would have preferred to stop publishing #covid variants estimates, am expecting to not see same updated this Friday.

They stopped publishing all other related data long before now, and still weren't publishing anything useful wrt #BirdFlu, as of close of last administration.

So now we wait to see how much compliance in advance impacts academic researchers submitting data to a global non-profit. (Let alone how much of U.S. GISAID data may be typically provided by gov't researchers.)

Yes, GISAID was founded in opposition to WHO's proprietary data practices. But also, GISAID's public domain ethos is close enough in spirit to F/OSS that it might just as readily be a target of isolationist fervor.

So, it's wait in see.

Hospital covid and flu data reporting is set to resume November 1st:

https://apic.org/advocacy_update/new-cms-requirement-for-reporting-hospital-respiratory-data/

To be clear, such data is typically reported (to the public, at least) on a weekly basis. So, a whole week of data would have to come in.

Moreover, the data tends to be embargoed—or at least is beset by processing latency.

Even if data collection were to start Oct 26, for reporting to CMS on Nov 1, the public would see nothing before Nov. 8.

Election is Nov 5.