CDC advisers push agency to explain data removal, say when info will be restored Agencies took down info on topics including gender, vaccines, and climate change

https://www.statnews.com/2025/02/01/cdc-data-websites-removed-advisers-ask-acting-director-explain-resotre/?utm_campaign=morning_rounds&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_l3PMzQtw3R3WSaiRPzVjIwgc7kbZ5vhO-9covEZb-osG-h1z6Y0Zeooh0iaYgyiPwy8RQvuEANSwAp9oydLEkkrSVAg&_hsmi=345346121&utm_content=345346121&utm_source=hs_email What the heck happened on Friday? On Friday last week, data began to disappear from the CDC website. “I spent all morning frantically downloading Youth Risk Behavioral Surveillance System data. I can’t believe this is all happening,” researcher Ariel Beccia told me in an email that morning. In addition to the YRBS data, gathered every other year in surveys to high schoolers, pages dealing with HIV surveillance, a social vulnerability index that measures how well counties might respond to disasters, long Covid data, and the agency’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices were all removed. On Saturday, top advisors to the agency sent a letter to acting director Susan Monarez asking what the rationale was for the removal, what was being done to safeguard that data, and when access would return. In a statement to STAT, the CDC said the agency was changing its website to implement White House orders to remove information related to “gender ideology” and diversity, equity, and inclusion. Later that day, some government sites, like ACIP’s, had been restored. But it’s unclear when everything will be back online, or how data might be modified when it is. We’ll keep you updated, and please reach out if you have any information. https://www.statnews.com/2025/01/31/cdc-removes-data-on-sexual-orientation-gender-identity-from-website/?utm_campaign=morning_rounds&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8qGB62LgC4XRKq3p4B0dDxSDzode7tYg837rAMIVuHnK63IlLKN5_STg3GyjzrJ4Igv-bk-lQwO6RqNq7-K3C3Q9zvlA&_hsmi=345346121&utm_content=345346121&utm_source=hs_email