Vanished: critical data for health measurement and prediction
Dr. Katelyln Jetelina asks "What the hell is going on?" with data thousands of scientists use to measure, predict and report disease outbreaks, like the current worst TB outbreak in the US in years.
You’ve seen the chaos elsewhere; Treasury—with payments like Social Security—is a huge concern. Starting a week ago, scientists began to hear cryptic and foreboding warnings from colleagues: Go to the CDC website, and download your data now.
In the midst of the worst TB outbreak in years, and a new outbreak of measles cases in unvaccinated children and adults, data that flowed seamlessly from states to DC to health providers and then to us has vanished or been replaced with “temporary offline” or “your page has moved” in favor of political actions to quickly change words like “gender” to “sex.”
Click below for an update from internationally-recognized epidemiologist and public health expert Katelyn Jetelina on what’s going on that directly impacts your health and wellbeing and mine: “Under the new administration, HHS is running with a skeleton crew. Downsizing government sounds good in theory, but with only 10 people overseeing a $1.3 trillion agency, capacity is a serious issue, resulting in a bottleneck of approvals” and more.
