The appointed politicians of the Trump Administration have taken measures in recent weeks to exercise an unprecedented influence on the centers for disease control and the publication of medical research of prevention, the weekly report of morbidity and mortality, say multiple federal officials Health to CBS News. The interference included dictating what to cover and retain studies on the growing outbreak of avian flu.
The Trump administration movements to control the investigation published by the agency ends a decades independence streak for the magazine, known as MMWR.
Health officials and experts have long considered the MMWR as the “voice of the CDC” and a respected source where federal scientists release an important investigation to public health. He range as among the most cited health magazines in the world.
“The MMWR has lost its autonomy,” a health official told CBS News.
The efforts of Trump officials to control the publication have stagnated the release of three studies on bird flu For weeks, as the virus continues to spread wild Birds, Poultry farms and cattle throughout the country.
This delay was initially attributed to the “pause” of communications ordered by the Department of Health and Human Services, which He stagnated many releases Through the government.
The spokesmen of the CDC and the HHS did not immediately respond to the requests for comments.
Trump officials initially said that the GAG order was necessary for the administration .
But as that pause has begun to lift, Trump’s officials in the HHS and the interim director of the CDCs Susan monarezHe rejected the repeated requests of the health officials of the career to publish the complete research, officials say.
Stagnant research includes findings on Pet cats Property of dairy workers infected with aviar flu, more residual waters tests and antibody tests of cows veterinarians.
Instead, health officials say that Monaz transmitted the orders of the Trump administration to investigate this week on the health risks of forest fires, days after President Trump criticized The fire management of the Democratic governor of California Gavin Newsom in the state.
Federal scientists say they hurried to find studies to fulfill the order, which was unexpected and not related to any study that would have been scheduled to leave.
The investigation that was finally published analyzed exposure to worrying chemicals For firefighters who responded to 2023 forest fires in Hawaii and Visits in the emergency room In Los Angeles during forest fires.
Multiple health officials said they fulfilled for fear of their work. Scientists within the agency say they have been bombarded with daily applications to accept “fork on the way” Offer to give up by the Department of Government Efficiency of the Trump Administration, or DOGE, Workforce, headed by Elon Musk.
VISLANT IN A STUDY MADE ON LINE
A technical failure resulted in a table of one of the accidentally avian flu studies on Thursday, before officials rush to tear it down.
This aviar flu study was supposed to present the details of an investigation into how two interior cats could have contracted the virus. One of the owners of the cats was a dairy worker who transported without pasteurizing Raw milkThat health officials warn is one of the main ways in which the H5N1 avian flu virus is spreading among farms in the United States
Multiple federal health officials and external experts have unsuccessfully pressed the Trump administration to allow publication to maintain its independence, citing the importance of allowing federal public health researchers to publish their findings without fearing to political interference.
While researchers often have to jump through multiple rings of “authorization” within the agency to satisfy questions and concerns raised by scientists and health officials of their career about the precision of their research, the officials said that those appointed politicians generally moved away from interference in their content.
Now health officials fear that a precedent has been established for the Trump administration to cross more lines in their attempts to influence research and data published by the CDCs.
The previous efforts of the officials designated by Trump to exercise control over the publication were subject to scrutiny during the Covid-19 pandemic, in Trump’s first mandate, after attendees sought to influence the reports at that time.
Now it is not clear that the co -authors of the investigation of the Avian flu outside the agency when the investigation will be published, weeks after it was ready to begin.
“The study was completed and published in MMWR last month until the order of the new administration stopped the communication of the CDC,” said K. Fred Ginger II, executive director of the American Association of Bovine Practices, in an email .
The association had worked with the Health Department of Ohio and the CDC To try The blood of the veterinarians who treat cows at an annual conference at the end of last year, looking for antibodies that would help answer an outstanding question: did the cases of avian flu infect veterinarians under radar?
“I don’t know when to publish,” Gingrich said.
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