Everyone knows you can’t have a public health disaster if you simply don’t have any public health
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Dan Diamond
New: Trump officials have paused all external communications at health agencies like CDC, FDA, NIH.
No health alerts and the famed MMWRs; no updates to key websites or social media posts.
And no indication how long the pause will last.
With @rachelroubein.bsky.social + Lena Sun.
No health alerts and the famed MMWRs; no updates to key websites or social media posts.
And no indication how long the pause will last.
With @rachelroubein.bsky.social + Lena Sun.
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Operation Make America Sick and Stupid is going splendidly.
It normally goes out on Friday afternoon, so we'll see what happens.
Even as federal public health agencies are shuttered, there are still a lot of people doing good public health. Is there a good way to keep tabs on all that? I mean aside from just following you guys directly on social media.
Like is there an open-source CDC somewhere?
Case in point: Florida.
If I was qualified I guess I'd start trying to pool data from all the states to... Do stuff? I don't know, I'm not qualified.
Wash all you can, and start enjoying meat well done.
by gum, that's what we're going to have now
Signed,
Donald Trump
https://www.statnews.com/2020/07/20/trump-said-more-covid19-testing-creates-more-cases-we-did-the-math/
This is worse. Much much worse.
Silencing the CDC, NIH, FDA is shocking yet totally consistent with this administration's aversion to facts, data and science.
What about petrified wood?
"You mean rocks? Dang, you're dumb."
Perhaps, if health workers don't go to work to see if patients are actually there, we can just assume that nobody is sick?
As long as we don't see them, they are fine... right?
Me: Why is the hospital full of-
*FBI agent busts through my door*