Health
US coronavirus data will now go straight to the White House. Here’s what this means for the world – Australian Times
Trump administration ordering hospitals to send COVID-19 data directly to the White House.
Erin Smith, Edith Cowan University
Led by physicians, scientists and epidemiologists, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is one of the most reliable sources of knowledge during disease outbreaks. But now, with the world in desperate need of authoritative information, one of the foremost agencies for fighting infectious disease has gone conspicuously silent.
For the first time since 1946, when the CDC came to life in a cramped Atlanta office to fight malaria, the agency is …
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