Urgent CDC Data and Analyses on Influenza and Bird Flu Go Missing as Outbreaks Escalate - KFF Health News
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Delays in urgent CDC analyses of seasonal flu and bird flu, and the agency’s silence, will harm Americans as outbreaks escalate, doctors and public health experts warn.

Delays in urgent CDC analyses of seasonal flu and bird flu, and the agency’s silence, will harm Americans as outbreaks escalate, doctors and public health experts warn.

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  • meowmeowbeanz@sh.itjust.works
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    7 days ago

    The CDC’s radio silence on flu and bird flu data under the Trump admin isn’t just bureaucratic inertia—it’s a calculated gamble with lives. Frontline doctors are flying blind, parsing symptoms without knowing if they’re facing a mutated strain or co-infections. This isn’t oversight; it’s systemic sabotage. When vital HAN alerts vanish and WHO data feeds go dark, you don’t need a conspiracy theory to smell the rot.

    Meanwhile, unpublished studies collect dust while dairy workers and cats drop dead from bird flu. Prioritizing wildfire reports over active outbreaks isn’t incompetence—it’s malice. The feds’ refusal to share wastewater data or vet infection rates isn’t “uncertainty.” It’s playing Russian roulette with a virus that’s already jumping species.

    The courts ordering dataset restorations by Feb 14? Too little, too late. When the CDC’s own advisors risk disbandment to demand transparency, you know the ship isn’t just sinking—it’s been scuttled.