Ars Technica

Internet Archive played crucial role in tracking shady CDC data removals

When thousands of pages started disappearing from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website late last week, public health researchers quickly moved to archive deleted public ...
Morning Overview on MSN

A COVID summer surge is back on the CDC’s radar as cases tick up

The CDC is tracking a familiar pattern this June: SARS-CoV-2 levels in the nation’s sewage are climbing again, and the agency ...
Becker's Hospital Review

CDC’s use of data to track foodborne illness outbreaks pays off big

PulseNet, the CDC’s national lab network that uses data to track the spread and origins of outbreaks of foodborne illness, is making meaningful strides in curbing cases of food poisoning, ...
Los Angeles Times

Cuts have eliminated more than a dozen U.S. government health-tracking programs

NEW YORK — U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s motto is “Make America Healthy Again,” but government cuts could make it harder to know if that’s happening. More than a dozen data-gathering ...
Nextgov

Shrinking tech team endangers a nationwide disease tracking system at CDC

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was modernizing a public health surveillance system used by 25 health jurisdictions nationwide to track diseases like hepatitis and tuberculosis when ...