At 5 p.m. Eastern today, a piece of federal public health plumbing built during the COVID-19 response switches off for good. SimpleReport, the free CDC tool that let small clinics, schools, nursing homes and other testing sites report rapid test results electronically to health departments, ends service on August 31.
When it does, everything stored in it goes too. CDC's sunset notice states that patient and test result data will no longer be available to view or download after that point, and that all user accounts will be deleted at 5 p.m. Eastern.
