Days after President Donald Trump took office, the Department of Health and Human Services imposed an indefinite "pause" on communications
As medical associations sound the alarm over the lack of federal health communication, outbreaks are slipping under the radar.
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Medical researchers forced to compile national data by hand, silence on a major tuberculosis outbreak, and the erasure of gender references: the Trump administration has pushed the US public health system into uncharted territory.
Here's a look at some of the biggest impacts.
The journal, which once documented the first AIDS cases, has missed two editions with no return date.
MMWR "is really important for states to read to have a more in-depth understanding of what might be going on and what to do about it," Jennifer Nuzzo, director of the Pandemic Center at Brown University, told AFP, calling the pause a "radical departure" from norms.