A large part of the scientific communication According to several sources in disease control and prevention centers and the National Institutes of Health.
Staff members say that the stopping of communications, as well as a MEMOS dam from the Trump administration, with a scanning Instructions to clean all evidence of gender identity and diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives affect efforts to protect the health of Americans in health agencies.
The stopping of communications occurs during an intense season of the flu and epidemics of other respiratory diseases, as well as an increasing epidemic of the flu flu.
“Their effects on the CDC have led to an almost complete stop on daily work,” said a CDC doctor who was not authorized to speak publicly.
The directives of the Ministry of Health and Social Services allow the publication of communications that could be considered as an essential health and safety issue.
The break was to end on February 1.
Andrew Nixon, director of communications at HHS, wrote in an email on Tuesday that “several types of external communications” are no longer subject to the break and that “all HHS divisions have received clear indications on how to ask ‘Approval of any other type of mass communication. “”
Nixon did not specify what he meant by “external communications”.
One of Weekly CDC reports on flu activity has been delayed for several days. And while the agency has updated its Bird flu websiteHe has not organized a public briefing on the issue for weeks.
The CDC did not publish its Weekly ratio of morbidity and mortality, or MMWRSince January 16.
A CDC employee has confirmed that their scientific article and several others who have nothing to do with Dei had been withdrawn from the quasi-publication in magazines with a reading committee.
“It is perfectly natural and appropriate for a new administration to adopt a different approach to politics,” said Dr. Richard Besser, president of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and former interim director of the CDC. But crushing scientific facts and data, he said, is “scary”.
Blackout communications started almost two weeks agoFollowed by a burst of these HHS memos asking federal agencies to stop all work involving ideologies of I or gender and Delete these messages on their websites. Some websites have been restored, but it is not clear if they have been changed.
An NIH scientist said that on Monday, the teams were informed that they could resume meetings, but it was always forbidden to speak to the media or to present data during conferences because these results would be directed to the public . The scientist was not allowed to speak publicly.