Several federal health officials told CBS News that Trump administration political appointees have taken steps in recent weeks to play an unprecedented impact on the flagship Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s Medical Research Publications. Interference includes deciding what to cover and withholding studies on the bird flu outbreak.
The Trump administration's move to control research published by the agency ended decades of independence, the journal known as MMWR.
Health officials and experts have long regarded MMWR as the “voice of the CDC” and are also a respected source for federal scientists to unleash public health importance research. It is one of the most cited health journals in the world.
“MMWR has lost autonomy,” a health official told CBS News.
Trump officials' efforts to control the publication have stalled three related research Bird flu For weeks, as the virus continues to spread wilderness birds,,,,, Poultry Farm and ox All over the country.
This delay was initially attributed to a “pause” of communications ordered by the Department of Health and Human Services, Many versions have been stalled The entire government.
A spokesperson for CDC and HHS did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Trump officials initially said the administration needed to jerk the orders to catch up with its public relations team to oversee a lot of communication from the national federal health agencies.
But as the pause begins to lift, Trump's officials and acting CDC director at HHS Susan MonarezOfficials said the refusal of repeated requests from occupational health officials to publish a complete study.
Stagnant studies include Pet cat Cow infections owned by dairy workers, plus wastewater test results and antibody tests from cattle veterinarians.
Instead, health officials said Monarez criticize California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom dealt with the fire in the state.
Federal scientists say they scrambled to find research that comply with the order, unexpectedly and had nothing to do with any research planned to be issued.
The final published study examines the worrying chemical exposure of firefighters responding to the 2023 wildfire in Hawaii and visits in Los Angeles' emergency room during the wildfire.
Several health officials said they comply with their work that is concerned about. Scientists inside the institution say they ask for “forks on the road” every day. Propose to resign by the Trump administration's Ministry of Efficiency or Doge, Task Force, led by Elon Musk.
A glimpse of an offline study
A technical failure led to a table, a table for an unexpectedly published bird flu study on Thursday, which officials scrambled to knock it down.
The bird flu study should list the details of the investigation to see how two indoor cats are infected with the virus. One of the cats' owners is a dairy worker Raw milkHealth officials warn that this is one of the main ways in which H5N1 bird flu virus spreads between U.S. farms
Several federal health officials and outside experts have failed to successfully lobby the Trump administration to allow the publication to remain independent, citing allowing federal public health researchers to publish their findings without fear of political intervention.
While researchers often have to skip multiple “clearances” within the agency to meet the questions and concerns raised by scientists and occupational health officials about research accuracy, officials say political appointments often avoid interfering in their content.
Now, health officials are concerned that the Trump administration has set precedents for further boundaries to impact research and data published by the CDC.
Previous efforts by Trump-appointed officials came under scrutiny during Mr. Trump's first term during the pandemic on the 19th after auxiliary aides tried to influence reports at the time.
It is not clear that the co-author of the avian flu study outside the institution will be published weeks after preparations for departure.
“This study has been completed and will be released on MMWR last month until the new administration's order stopped communication from the CDC,” K. Fred Gingrich II, executive director of the American Cattle Practitioners Association, said in an email.
The association, which has worked with Ohio’s health department and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), sampled veterinarians’ blood at an annual meeting late last year, looking for antibodies that can help answer a prominent question: If a bird flu case is infected Veterinarian under the radar?
“I don't know when it will be published,” Gingrich said.
