Summary
A federal judge ordered HHS, CDC, and FDA to restore deleted health webpages removed under Trump’s executive order on gender ideology.
The ruling favors Doctors for America, which argued that erasing medical data violated federal law and harmed patient care.
The deletions impacted STI treatment guidance, youth health data, and immunization resources.
Judge John Bates found the agencies acted unlawfully, endangering the public health. His ruling requires restoration by Tuesday night, marking another legal setback for Trump’s executive actions.
Hopefully it wasn’t deleted, deleted. Normally I feel like there would be backups, but I could see our fearless leader ordering it ALL to be permanently wiped such that recovery would be impossible.
The internet archive likely has it.
There were a number of self-hosting, data hoarder type folk that were actively archiving government URLs once Donny was elected.
The Internet Archive is basically under constant attack from, among other things, the US government.
And even under a good administration: Getting permission to restore to something that a random website claims is what was there is gonna be a LOT of paperwork and a LOT of lifelong bureaucrats signing off on it.
I personally have full backups of some of it so I’m 1000% the data exists in its entirety out there
It would be pretty difficult for the CDC to vouch for data from your personal backup though.
Ceed (We’re close friends so that’s what I call the CDC) would have no problem. He knows I’m good for it.