Experts alarmed by ‘less transparent’ CDC as US measles deaths rise
Agency declines to reveal in which state latest measles death occurred as it delays reporting other measles deaths
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) added a third measles death to its dashboard on Wednesday, but the agency would not reveal whether the death occurred in Pennsylvania or another state – which is “notable” as the agency delays reporting other measles deaths, experts say.
The CDC cited privacy laws in not sharing the name of the state, but experts say there are no privacy concerns in doing so – and this information is important for the public to have as the outbreak continues accelerating, growing by 8% in one week to 4,410 confirmed cases so far this year, nearly double last year’s count.
“I don’t buy it,” said Dorit Reiss, a professor of law at UC Law San Francisco. “Naming a state won’t be giving personal details, and they give the number of cases in each state,” she said, adding there was “nothing to prevent giving numbers of deaths in each”.
The CDC is not governed by Hipaa as health providers are. The agency is instead guided by the Federal Privacy Act, which usually prohibits disclosing government records about specific individuals, said Lindsay Wiley, professor of law and faculty director of the Health Law and Policy Program at UCLA Law.
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Man we are gonna be dealing with the fallout of this idiocy for a generation at least, if not two. And that’s without even touching on the geopolitical and domestic + international social / cultural consequences.
We will never recover from this brain drain. The laid off people take with them generations of knowledge. We will never be what we were again.
Yep. We were probably rolling along from the inertia of things set up in the 40s, 50s, and 60s, well into the 90s, 00s, etc.
Donnie and dumbass doge dickweeds have fucked us for a very long time. It will be very hard to recover, assuming we get power in two years and begin turning it around immediately.
probably setting back bio-medical/biotech research, which was already on thin ice.
RFK jr is very obsessed with measles antivaxxing. he knows because he resulted in 86 samoan children deaths.
Why would anyone in this administration listen to experts?
the worm is talking.
The CDC is captured by quacks and ambulance chasers. The best thing to do is for processional associations to issue guidance to the public to ignore any directives or studies from the CDC that have been released during Trump's term of office.
Give them PEPTIDES.
Alarmed by? I think they misspelled "Expected".
Experts get paid too much to only ever be alarmed.