Following executive orders from President Trump, which led to the removal of certain public information on health diversity from government websites, bioinformatician Niema Moshiri and other researchers rushed to back up important datasets from the CDC and other federal sites. The urgency arose as many vital public health pages began disappearing with little warning, prompting a community of scientists to collaborate on retrieving these resources. They aim to maintain access to essential data on diseases, demographics, and health programs for future research and public knowledge.
In the past week, some US federal government websites containing important data sets and information on public health and demographics have been taken down.
A lot of people did similar parallel efforts, especially within their own areas of expertise, to secure important federal health data.
I never thought I would have to do it for information pages from the federal government, but the situation calls for it.
It was kind of shocking to me that they would just delete pages willy-nilly, indicating a lack of concern for public knowledge.
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