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On Friday, the centers of control and prevention of diseases were disinfected from their location on its website thousands of pages that included terms such as “transgender”, “LGBT” and “a pregnant person”, to comply with an executive matter that prohibits any material that enhances the “gender ideology”. “
By Monday, some pages appeared, partly in response to intense media coverage, a violent reaction from the scientific community and anxiety to the health of the public, according to a senior official in knowledge of the issue.
The cleansing also swept pollen information, which You must be given to patients Before it is immunized; Promotions of contraception; And many pages on how sweat and racism affect health results. It was also removed. It was a database containing 20 years of HIV data that doctors rely on to determine whether a pregnant woman lives in a high area of ​​HIV and should be tested for the virus in the third trimester of pregnancy.
Some of these resources were also returned, but the return was not completely smooth. Plans and tables can be reached in the HIV database through Google Search, for example, but the gateway to the Disease Control Center has been broken.
A senior official said, provided that his identity is not disclosed for fear of revenge. “But” historical data, articles and clinical guidelines are still available. “This is mainly how this is applied.”
The pause was accompanied by two other guides, who also aim to accelerate information on certain topics. The scholars of the Center for Disease Control late Friday were ordered to withdraw any hanging publications, in any scientific journal, which is mentioned, according to an email seen in the New York Times.
Separately, the guidance that prohibits the employees of the Disease Control Center has been extended from holding scientific meetings or communicating with other organizations or the public was extended indefinitely on Saturday, when it was expected to expire, according to another message obtained before Times.
“I am very afraid and I am very angry at what is happening now,” said Dr. Inna Park, an expert in HIV and other sexually transmitted infections at the University of California, San Francisco.
The guidance also targeted pages on other government websites, including a web page in section 1557 of the Care Law at reasonable prices, under the Department of Health and Humanitarian Services. This ruling prohibits “discrimination based on race, color, national origin, age, disability or sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, sexual identity, and sex properties), in covered health programs or activities.” He also returned online on Monday.
Disease Control Center recommendations are the cornerstone of clinical practice in the United States. The brochures of each procedural hospital are filled with agency documents, and doctors regularly refer to recommendations, on the website or through the agency application.
Now, however, the search for some terms leads to a dead link or to pages that have been stripped of the main details, or that the search gives a proposal to explore another topic instead. For example, the search for the word “miscarriage” indicates that the user “also tried: adoption.”
Some pages – for example, are expected to remain in the health of transgender people – are absent because they may enhance “sexual ideology”.
“I have no idea what this term means,” said Dr. Richard Besser, who served as director of the Disease Control Center in 2009.
“We are not talking here about ideology – we are talking about public health,” he added. “We are talking about the people whose lives are at risk.”
The disappearance of pages already affects medical care. In Washington State, Dr. Tim Minza, the medical director of the sexual health clinic in King’s County, was concerned that the progress made by the hard part against early pink disease in gay and decorative men.
Dr. Jessica Wayer, a bid gynecologist in Concord, NH, said that she could not direct her patient to prevent pregnancy without reaching complex eligibility standards. For example, the instructions for birth control include recommendations for patients with different medical conditions. It also narrates drug reactions that must be taken into account and give service providers information about modern methods such as vaginal rings.
“If the patient suffers from high blood pressure or migraines, then I need to know what is safe for her,” said Dr. Alison Stoype, a gynecologist in Carolina, North Carolina.
The CDC site is apparently changed to comply with Mr. Trump’s executive orders on diversity, fairness, integration, accessibility and “defense of women”. Dr. Wayr said that pollen information and contraceptive instructions have nothing to do with these requests.
“This seems just a purposeful removal of important information that provides safe contraceptives, which I consider terrifying,” she said. “They seem to want to control women, not to defend women.”
Although executive orders did not mention race, many resources about structural racism and health disparities have disappeared in some societies on Friday.
In the United States, race and race are closely related to health. Black and original American women are likely to die twice to three times, such as white women to die during pregnancy and after birth, and their children face a weak risk of death before their first birthday. Diabetes, obesity and other chronic diseases are also more prevalent, and the average life expectancy is less, among ethnic and ethnic minorities groups.
Linda Goller Blunt, head of the Da`wah Defense Group, said that information related to ethnic variations is very important to help healthcare providers focus on the most vulnerable groups. During the roaming epidemic, I noticed that healthy researchers discovered that the pulse -oxidation scale devices, which measure blood oxygen levels, “did not work on people with dark skin.” This contrast may have contributed to the high death rates between color societies.
Mrs. Balont said: “If we cannot collect data according to race, ethnic identity and sexual identity, we will see an increase in death rates.”
Mr. Trump’s orders were cleared more than 8000 web pages across more than ten American government sites. In some cases, executive orders also targeted the work of ordinary citizens.
A memorandum was granted to the Federal Health Research and Quality Agency, which publishes papers from both government researchers and academics, employees until 5 pm on Friday to clean the agency’s publication, Patient safety networkIn terms of conditions including “transgender”, “non -bilateral”, “LGBT” and “sexual identity”.
Of nearly 20 research papers, which were removed from 2022, they separated how doctors identified better for patients at risk of suicide. The main author of the paper, Dr. Gordon Chef, is the Director of Quality and Safety at the Center for the Faculty of Medicine at Harvard University of Harvard for First Care; It is not a government world. The paper has been marked for one line: “High -risk groups include male sex, being young, old warriors, original tribes, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, Queer/interrogation (LGBTQ).”
Dr. Chef said he was shocked by the “severe control” of the new administration. He said, “This whole idea is that the risk or suspension factors should be based on political ideology rather than data and the truth is a fairly frightening possibility,” he said.
Some experts explore the legitimacy of management content deletion from the federal websites and papers written by CDC scientists. Larry Gustin, director of the World Health Organization Center at the World Health Law, said in the case of Dr. Chef’s paper, the administration clearly expressed.
“For me, this is the censorship of a classic view in violation of the first modification,” said Mr. Guskin.
He added: “While the administration may be able to silence government health officials who perform their official duties, it cannot withdraw scientists from the private sector to their control network.” “All of these censorship is to express one word that the government objects to.”