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fromwww.aljazeera.com
1 day ago

Fact checking Robert F Kennedy's statements to Senate on COVID, vaccines

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. clashed with senators over vaccine access, vaccine safety claims, COVID-19 death counts, and past comments about antidepressants.
Public health
fromAxios
4 days ago

Trump admin agrees to restore public health webpages

HHS will restore federally funded public health webpages to their January 29, 2025 state under an agreement resolving a lawsuit by medical groups.
fromFortune
2 weeks ago

Federal websites are going dark as evidence of mass tampering with government data emerges

A federal website that informs the public about what information agencies are collecting and allows for public comment went down last weekend, and it has only been partially restored. The outage has raised concerns among advocates who already were troubled by the disappearance of data sets from government websites after President Donald Trump began his second term. As of Thursday, the website's landing page said, it was "currently undergoing revisions."
Public health
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

More than 2.8m people in US identify as trans, including 724,000 youth, data shows

More than 2.8 million people now identify as transgender in the US, including an estimated 724,000 youth, according to a new data analysis that is the largest of its kind to date. Researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Williams Institute used federal surveys and data from state health agencies to identify the size and demographics of the trans population in each state. The analysis, shared with the Guardian and released on Wednesday, documented thousands of trans youth living in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The findings counter Donald Trump's aggressive efforts to deny the existence of trans minors, as his administration removes references to trans people across federal agencies and widely erodes protections and programs for LGBTQ+ communities.
LGBT
fromwww.twincities.com
1 month ago

Why are data nerds racing to save US government statistics?

An army of outside statisticians, demographers and computer scientists have joined forces to capture, preserve and share data sets, sometimes clandestinely, ensuring their future availability.
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