CDC Banned From Issuing Alerts Until RFK Takes Over

The Daily Beast reports:

President Donald Trump has decided to put all federal health agencies on hold until his Department of Health and Human Services Secretary nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr. gets his confirmation hearing.

The Washington Post reported that dozens of current staffers have been instructed to halt all external communications, including health advisories, social media posts, publishing of scientific reports and website updates until RFK Jr. takes over.

Federal officials shared that the pause order would stop the flow of health data information from agencies as the Trump administration looks to remake departments to fit its policy views.

Read the full article. Prominent QAnon accounts are celebrating.

🚨BREAKING: President Trump has frozen all research and communications by soon-to-be fired Biden officials at the agencies RFK is about to take over, such as the HHS, FDA, CDC, and NIH.

The report leaked through the Washington Post, so bear in mind some of the facts may not be… pic.twitter.com/zrsosWZ2lX

— Died Suddenly (@DiedSuddenly_) January 22, 2025

ICYMI: The entire Department of HHS, including the CDC, NIH & FDA have been banned from communicating “externally”.

This means no “health advisories, weekly scientific reports, updates to websites and social media posts” until, at the earliest, RFKjr is sure his roadkill freezer is fully stocked.

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— JoeinNJfightsfordemocracy (@progavalanche.bsky.social) January 22, 2025 at 11:07 AM