Tom Harkin Global Communications Center, otherwise known as Building 19, is located on the Roybal Campus of the organization in Atlanta. Photo by James Gathany / Centers for Disease Control and Prevention / Wikimedia Commons
February 8 (UPI) – Many eminent health organizations urge those responsible for the Trump administration to restore important data sets on centers for disease control and prevention and prevention and prevention Food and Drug Administration Websites.
More than 1,000 pages of national, regional and state health data have been deleted from CDC and FDA websites on January 31 as part of a purge of federal government data.
Many pages have been restored, but many remain inaccessible, which, according to certain health organizations, threaten the quality of the provision of health care across the country, ABC News reported.
“Numerous sets of widely used government data have been deleted or deleted and then restored with data -exploded,” the American Cancer Society non -profit company said on Thursday. press release.
“It has also been reported that scientific articles by federal authors have been removed from submission to research journals on spending administration.”
Dr. Wayne Ai Frederick, Acting Managing Director of the American Cancer Society, asked the Trump administration to “restore access to complete data, refrain from changes that would lead to a future collection of incomplete data and would undertake to ensure a science based on evidence and to proceed without more bureaucracy or paperwork.
“Access to complete, coherent and in progress data is imperative to our ability to progress to end cancer, we know it for everyone,” said Frederick.
The association of health care journalists has declared data concerning HIV was among the information made temporarily inaccessible by the data purge.
Web pages concerning the estimated impact and prevalence of HIV; Diagnostics, deaths and prevalence of HIV; HIV data guidelines and surveillance reports were reinstated after being initially inaccessible, the Ahcj reported Wednesday.
The most disturbing, according to the AHCJ, was the sudden stop in the publication of the weekly Morbidity and Mortality report which was not available for two weeks after being published each week since July 1, 1960.
At least one member of the Congress called on the Trump administration to resume the publication of the weekly ratio of morbidity and mortality.
“Doctors, health care providers and the public all benefit from the publication of critical and timely health information. statement Released on Wednesday.
“The Trump administration must immediately resume the appropriate, objective and scientific publication of CDC MMWR reports without any political interference by publishing the next MMWR issue tomorrow,” said Durbin.
THE weekly report was published Thursday and focuses mainly on the effects of recent forest fires in the Grand Los Angeles region.
The weekly report on Thursday follows the weekly report of January 16.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comments concerning the purge of data from CDC and FDA websites or the temporary judgment of the publication of the Morbidity and Mortality weekly report.