The Trump administration moved rapidly to crack down on health and science agencies, canceled a series of scientific meetings, and reported on the Federal Health Authorities in the future, focusing on the crisis of bird influenza that escalates the country. I was instructed to refrain from all public communication.
Experts participating in external advisory panels on various topics, from antibiotics tolerance to hearing loss, reported that the meeting had been canceled on Wednesday.
Cancellation is in accordance with the command issued by the Federal Health and Welfare Department of the Ministry of Health and Welfare. According to the internal memo reviewed by the Federal Officer and the New York Times, the public communication until the president's appointment or the master is reviewed.
This command prohibits the release of regulations, guidance documents, and other public documents and communications. Until this, “Notification”, “Grant's Announcement”, news release, lectures, or official communication with public servants is approved.
New restrictions are applied to messages to e -mail groups and social media posts, and the ban on the Federal registration book, which cannot continue many official processes, is included. Some notices sent by the Biden administration in the last week were quickly withdrawn.
Cancellation and communication crackdowns sent cold through illness management prevention centers and wider scientific communities employees. This command was first reported by the Washington Post.
The CDC representative and the Food Pharmaceutical Bureau have rejected comments. Moratorium will continue until February 1st.
Radioactive drops were available immediately.
CDC officials are ready to publish the issues of the influential affection rate and mortality rate on Thursday, including several items related to the growth of bird flu on dairy and poultry farms. It was done.
The weekly reports are called “Holy Holy”, an important means of communication on public health development. This week's publications have been published as a result of orders, according to the Federal Health Authorities who discussed anonymity on the conditions.
According to the members of the panel, an external advisory panel meeting on health issues was canceled. For example, a meeting to review the subsidy proposal submitted to the National Institute of Health has been scrubbed, for example.
A member of the Presidential Advisory Committee for the fight against antibiotics -resistant bacteria said that the two -day meeting scheduled for next Tuesday and Wednesday was “in consideration of plans for the new administration to manage public communication with federal government. I was canceled.
The person who registered in advance for a celebration dinner was said to be “completely refunded within 48 hours” after receiving e -mail.
The order was signed by Dr. Dorothy Fink, a secretary of the Ministry of Health and Welfare. The confirmation of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., which was nominated by President Trump to lead the department, is not expected for at least a week.
The administration is usually not nominated the CDC's agent or agency member of the Food and Pharmaceutical Bureau in the following administration's first movement.
The suspension of communications is the other in which the federal government employees have been faced since Trump's inauguration, such as freezing employment, end of remote work, diversity, fairness, and closing of comprehensive offices and programs. Along with a series of changes.
In the latter half of Wednesday, Dr. Fink issued another command aimed at terminating diversity and inclusion on HHS, and “these programs using chorded languages or inaccurate languages. Let's try to disguise. ” Her letters also encouraged employees to report on unsupported colleagues.
Former Federal officials stated that it was not unusual for the new administration to restrict their first transitional communication, but the scope and period of the latest suspensions were unexpected.
The next Trump administration staff did not use the federal health authorities or get used to institutions using the transition period.
And although it is not normal to suspend communication, the previous administration has not restricted science publications such as MMWR and health guidelines for important importance to public welfare.
Dr. Richard Bessor, the former Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and former CDC's representative director, said:
“It's unusual for one of the important responsibilities to suspend all communication from institutions that continue to provide information to the general public,” he added.
Personally, some federal officials have confused whether health data is included in restrictions on communication with the federal registration book. Some officials seemed to know the restrictions at all.
Many concerns are mainly CDCs, and their responsibilities certainly include public communication. For example, the institution has recently made doctors and patients aware of the potential health risks of the Rwanda MPOX and Marburg disease.
The agency provides a survey on pandemic's mental health to medical providers and a new guideline that expands the recommendations of pneumococcal vaccine, and has increased the incidence of Tularemia, a rare infection in the United States. We are warnings about the increase.
Big Cities Health Coalition's executive director, as states and city health authorities rely on CDC notifications to make decisions in the community, such as when to increase influenza tests and what illness they are aiming for. CHRISSIE Juliano states. Leader of the public health category of the city.
Many of the information may have been delayed for a few days, but she said that she would like to spread more imminent public health information, especially in relation to the occurrence of bird flu.
For the past year, bird influenza virus, called H5N1, has influenced dozens of animal species and more than 35 million wild and commercial birds, soaring egg prices. It is also infected with at least 67 people. The country recorded the first bird's death in December.
“Can something like bird flu be hardened in 10 days in 10 days?” Juliano said. “Yes. I hope that if these signals can be seen at the federal level, information will come out.”
Dr. Ashish Jha, the Director of the Brown University Public Health School and former Director of the Biden administration Covid Czar, said that the suspension of communication was not the product of the Trump administration, especially the “bombing”, but to the White House. He said that he was likely to be a product. Efforts to refrain from information.
Nevertheless, public health experts pay attention to the change to access to the federal health data. Trump's last semester memories are still raw because political appointments have repeatedly interfered with CDC reports and doctors' guidance documents.
“If you go anywhere over February 1, I think there is a more serious problem,” said Dr. Jha.
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