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WASHINGTON, D.C. — According to news reports, the Trump administration has paused most public communications from health agencies through February 1, 2025, cancelled scientific meetings and held up publication of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the agency’s most important means of communicating essential public health information. The Food and Drug Administration, however, has continued drug safety communications.
Public Citizen Health Research Group Director Dr. Robert Steinbrook issued the following statement:
“There is zero reason for standard public health communications that people rely on to stay safe to be paused, and for scientific meetings to be postponed or cancelled. The public needs and should expect a seamless transition between administrations for the timely communication of all essential public health information. A pause in these vital communications should never have happened and must fully end by February 1.
