Judge orders CDC and FDA to restore webpages removed after Trump order US agencies told to reinstate critical public health information that had been scrubbed from public view.
Zachary Shelley, a lawyer for the advocacy group Public Citizen, which represented the group of 27,000 doctors and medical trainees, told USA Today that “there is immense harm to the public” and “there is increased risk of disease outbreak” if the webpages are not restored.
A federal judge has ordered that the Department of Health and Human Services, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration restore several of the webpages that they took down following Donald Trump’s executive order attacking diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI).
The orders came after the group Doctors of America said the removal of webpages at the CDC was detrimental to patient care because doctors rely on such pages for information about treating different conditions.
Trump’s moves resulted in some webpages having their wording altered to fit the new admiration’s orders, but certain datasets, such as from the CDC’s youth risk behavior surveillance system (YRBSS), were removed entirely, according to reporting from CBS News.
