"A modern-day book burning," a "five-alarm fire": Groups decry the CDC taking data offline, and the CDC's advisory board demands answers, acknowledging it may be their last act.

“We all discussed that,” said one board member. “We expect to be fired.”

New from @STAT this Saturday evening:

https://www.statnews.com/2025/02/01/cdc-data-websites-removed-advisers-ask-acting-director-explain-resotre/

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CDC advisers push agency to explain data removal, say when info will be restored

Information on topics such as gender, teens' behavior, and infectious diseases was removed from the CDC's website.

STAT

And for those who are worried about the CDC data itself, I can't vouch for the completeness of the data, but I'm told it's all archived here:

https://archive.org/details/20250128-cdc-datasets

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CDC datasets uploaded before January 28th, 2025 : Centers for Disease Control and Prevention : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

An archive of all CDC datasets uploaded to https://data.cdc.gov/browse before January 28th, 2025. Excludes corrupt datasets and data not publicly accessible.

Internet Archive

@brittanytrang Please note! The torrent does NOT encompass the entire dataset! You can find the entire dataset torrent magnet link on this reddit thread. A bunch of people are seeding it, including some peeps I know!

https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/1ife9p1/datacdcgov_full_archive/