On May 9, 2022 the Washington Post reported that, two months prior, the Washington D.C. Health Department stopped publishing data on daily covid case counts to its own website. The Washington Post also reported that on April 27, 2022, the D.C. Health Department stopped reporting daily case counts to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) who make the data public.
Local officials have provided no answer as to why reporting on daily cases stopped, despite Maryland and Virginia reporting one-week increases in Covid case counts of 29 percent and 43 percent, respectively. The CDC did not respond to a request for comment, though a spokeswoman for D.C. mayor Muriel Bowser said the city is looking into why regular reporting of covid cases to the CDC stopped. The D.C. Health Department continues to publish data on covid related hospitalizations and estimated infection rates weekly.