A Sign of the Times? DoD Skips Publishing Weekly COVID-19 Numbers
21 Mar 2022
Military.com | By Patricia Kime and Travis Tritten
In a sign of the continued decline of COVID-19 across the country, the Defense Department last Wednesday skipped its update of coronavirus case numbers -- data it faithfully has published weekly since July 2021.
The department released the information three times a week during the first year of the pandemic, while states across the U.S. reported the data daily. But as case numbers have dwindled, more than a dozen states have cut their output to once or twice a week, and it appears the DoD is following suit.
"There's been no decision ... to slim down our flow of information," Pentagon spokesman John Kirby told Military.com during a press conference Monday, though he did not say how often the information will be published. "We're still working on this very, very hard."
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