Perhaps more damning, the report describes an agency without an overarching compliance system to monitor such activity, and employees who either misunderstood or didn't follow existing reporting rules.
Each has strengths and weaknesses and thus to monitor influenza activity in the United States, the CDC runs both a syndromic system (called ILInet, short for Influenza-like Illness network) and a virologic system (part of a larger system called NREVSS).