Tom Frieden, MD, MPH, who served as CDC director from 2009 to 2017 and is now president and CEO of Resolve to Save Lives, said MMWR has published "without a break every week since 1960" and its predecessor publications did so weekly since 1887.
"The bottom line is every day the publication is delayed, doctors, nurses, hospitals, local health departments, and first responders are behind the information curve and less prepared to protect the health of all Americans," Frieden said in a statement shared with MedPage Today.
Richard Besser, MD, who served as acting CDC director for 6 months in 2009, urged the Trump administration to expeditiously lift the pause.
"Not a day goes by when CDC isn't tracking a potential threat to our health," Besser said in a statement to MedPage Today. "Cutting off communications from CDC puts our health at risk and prevents our doctors, nurses, and public health leaders in our communities from doing their jobs."
The pause went into effect on Tuesday and is in effect through Feb. 1, according to the Associated Press which obtained a memo from acting HHS Secretary Dorothy Fink, MD. It applies to public communications including press releases, social media posts, and websites, as well as anything intended to be published in the Federal Register, and, of course, MMWR.
PER MEDSPAGE TODAY...A MEDICAL WEBSITE
Last edit: 24 Jan 2025 07:58 by homeagain. Reason: add
A fact is information without emotion.
An opinion is information shaped by experience.
Ignorance is an opinion without knowledge.
Stupidity is an opinion the rejects facts.
I am so happy u like mushrooms....WHY r ALL the sources of info regarding health issues (not coming from the white house) being omitted/paused or otherwise kept from the masses? ....U R NOT CONNECTING THE DOTS (by the way, my screen froze and did not accept message)
What in that article that doesn't have a link says anything about mushrooms? Are you talking about porcinis, portabellas, magic?
Deciphering your point is always a challenge, but this one is particularly frustrating.
A fact is information without emotion.
An opinion is information shaped by experience.
Ignorance is an opinion without knowledge.
Stupidity is an opinion the rejects facts.
Showing a part of an article without a link to the whole article is forcing us to be in the dark. It's also clearly a violation of this sites TOS. Your riddles don't make you look smart btw... they make me wonder if you are headed down the same mental path as our last failed president.
A fact is information without emotion.
An opinion is information shaped by experience.
Ignorance is an opinion without knowledge.
Stupidity is an opinion the rejects facts.
AGAIN, the screen froze with the info...I then posted IN CAPS the source ,read the bottom of the post and do the research yourself......THE FDA IS BEING AFFECTED IN A LARGE WAY TO THESE ACTIONS....AIR BORNE AND CONTAGIOUS DISEASES R A RISK THE GOV. APPARENTLY DOES NOT WANT U KNOW .
i question the rationale for these actions by our POTUS......(u should to,but THAT would be forward thinking)
homeagain wrote: PER MEDSPAGE TODAY...A MEDICAL WEBSITE
A medical OPINION website which "reports" from a particular point of view and seeks to sway political opinion by comingling facts and propaganda for consumption.
The only thing of value from that site are any links to the studies their editorialized "reporting" is based on.
The worst pandemic of the last one hundred years happened under the CDC's watch. They admitted they made up the science on masks and distance requirements. Poor nations without a billion dollar CDC bureaucracy actually had lower death totals. Remember the incubators that killed thousands of Americans?
Face it, these people don't know what they are doing.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
AND I question what the government is ATTEMPTING to do.....ALL GUARDRAILS GONE, GOOD LUCK WHEN ONE OF YOUR OWN IS 'TOUCHED' BY THESE QUESTIONABLE ACTIONS....