Every week, I check the CDC's Mortality and Morbidity Weekly Report. This week for the first time in its 60 years it was not published on schedule. American healthcare workers all over the country are less informed about health crises that affect their patients. CDC led reports matter a 🧵
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Significance: Confirmed the Salk vaccine's effectiveness against polio.
Impact: Led to mass vaccination campaigns, reducing polio cases by 99% globally and paving the way for future vaccine initiatives.
Significance: Reinforced the Surgeon General’s findings linking smoking to disease.
Impact: Sparked anti-smoking policies like warning labels, smoking bans, and public health campaigns that reduced smoking rates.
Significance: Identified a mysterious pneumonia outbreak at an American Legion event, later linked to Legionella bacteria.
Impact: Led to major water safety regulations to prevent outbreaks.
Significance: Documented unusual pneumonia cases in young men, marking the first recognition of HIV/AIDS.
Impact: Triggered research, funding, and policy changes that reshaped global public health responses.
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5021a1.htm
Significance: Largest waterborne disease outbreak in U.S. history, affecting over 400,000 people in Milwaukee.
Impact: Led to stronger water treatment and surveillance measures.
https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/9/4/02-0417_article
Significance: Detailed inhalational anthrax cases after spores were mailed to U.S. government offices.
Impact: Strengthened national bioterrorism preparedness and response protocols.
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5041a1.htm
Trump Wants CONTROL
The CDC? the states?