"Among an avalanche of public health reversals these past couple months, the administration limited COVID-19 vaccine access to 65-and-over and patients with a short list of preconditions, chopped the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network down from eight to two infections, and dropped CDC testing for unusual infections medical doctors submit from across the country."
"It also baselessly announced that Tylenol taken during pregnancy causes autism, moved to fire all members of the Preventative Services Task Force (which requires insurance companies to cover specific treatments), gave AI companies a share of savings they find in cutting patients off Medicare, and continued its war on unions at the heart of the federal response to national emergencies."
The administration enacted sweeping reversals in federal public health policy, restricting COVID-19 vaccine eligibility to people 65 and older and a narrow set of preconditions. CDC surveillance was scaled back by shrinking the Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network from eight tracked infections to two and ending CDC testing of unusual infections submitted by clinicians. Officials promoted an unfounded claim linking prenatal Tylenol use to autism, attempted to dismiss the Preventative Services Task Force (affecting insurance-covered preventive care), granted AI firms a share of Medicare savings from cutting patients, and continued actions against unions central to emergency response. States diverged: some formed vaccine alliances overriding CDC recommendations while others banned school vaccine mandates, and public health leaders staged walkouts and protests opposing efforts to strip federal-led public health research and policy.
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