Centers for Disease Control

[[File:US-CDC-Logo.png|thumb|150px|This agency's probably saved your life more than you've ever thought.]]
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The '''Centers for Disease Control and Prevention''' ('''CDC''') is a branch of the [[United States]] government, under the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), tasked with keeping [[US]] healthy by monitoring icky things like [[Bacteria|microbes]], [[virus]]es, bug bites, and anything else that poses or may pose a threat to living healthily.  Originally, it focused only as a resource for disseminating information on infectious [[disease]]s, but has since branched out to help provide information on things ranging from heart disease to [[obesity]].

Unlike [[Federal Emergency Management Agency|FEMA]], the CDC has the authority to intern large numbers of Americans in the event of a sufficiently [[Pandemic|serious disease outbreak]].<ref>[http://www.cdc.gov/quarantine/aboutlawsregulationsquarantineisolation.html Legal Authorities for Isolation and Quarantine], CDC</ref> [[Crank]]s don't seem to have noticed this, however (except [[InfoWars]], of course).<ref>[http://www.infowars.com/if-ebola-hits-u-s-even-healthy-americans-will-be-quarantined/ "If Ebola Hits US, Even Healthy Americans Will Be Quarantined!"]</ref>

==CDC "coverup" manufactroversy==
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The [[anti-vaccination movement|anti-vaxxers]] hate this organization because the anti-vaxxers believe, from a garbled phone conversation, that the CDC was involved in a [[coverup]] of a 2004 study that had omitted data regarding [[MMR vaccine|MMR]] vaccination rates and [[autism]] diagnoses in a subset of African American boys. There is no coverup, and the entire thing is based on an incompetent anti-vaxxer researcher, with a blatant [[conflict of interest]], who tried epidemiology and unsurprisingly sucked at it.

==Censorship==
In 2025, the [[Donald Trump|Trump]] administrations removed all webpages on the CDC website pertaining to [[gender identity]] and [[LGBTQ]] issues. The [[censorship]] was the result of Trump's [[transphobic]] and [[anti-science]] executive order regarding "[[gender ideology]]";<ref>[https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/public-health/removal-pages-cdc-website-brings-confusion-dismay Removal of pages from CDC website brings confusion, dismay] by Chris Dall (February 3, 2025) ''CIDRAP, University of Minnesota''.</ref><ref>[https://www.404media.co/archivists-recreate-pre-trump-cdc-website-are-hosting-it-in-europe/ Archivists Recreate Pre-Trump CDC Website, Are Hosting It in Europe] by Jason Koebler (Mar 5, 2025) ''404 Media''.</ref> the order itself falsely conflated [[Sex#Sex vs gender|gender with sex]].<ref>[https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/01/30/2025-02090/defending-women-from-gender-ideology-extremism-and-restoring-biological-truth-to-the-federal Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government: A Presidential Document by the Executive Office of the President on 01/30/2025] (January 20, 2025) ''Federal Register''.</ref> The President of the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the Chair of the HIV Medicine Association issued a joint statement, writing:
{{cquote|The removal of HIV- and LGBTQ-related resources from the websites of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other health agencies is deeply concerning and creates a dangerous gap in scientific information and data to monitor and respond to disease outbreaks. Access to this information is crucial for infectious diseases and [[HIV]] health care professionals who care for people with HIV and members of the LGBTQ community and is critical to efforts to end the HIV epidemic. This is especially important as diseases such as HIV, mpox, [[sexually transmitted infection]]s and other illnesses threaten public health and impact the entire population. Timely and accurate information from the CDC guides clinical practice and policies, which are essential for controlling infections and safeguarding health.|||Tina Tan and Colleen Kelley<ref>[https://www.idsociety.org/news--publications-new/articles/2025/removal-of-hiv--and-lgbtq-related-cdc-webpages-creates-dangerous-gaps-in-scientific-information/ Removal of HIV- and LGBTQ-Related CDC Webpages Creates Dangerous Gaps in Scientific Information] (1/31/2025) ''Infectious Diseases Society of America''.</ref>}}

==See also==
*[[FDA]] — also under the HHS

==External links==
*[http://www.cdc.gov/ censored CDC website by the Trump administration, starting in 2025]
*[https://restoredcdc.org/www.cdc.gov/ CDC website] — an archive based in [[Europe]] of the pre-censored CDC website<ref>[https://www.404media.co/archivists-recreate-pre-trump-cdc-website-are-hosting-it-in-europe/ Archivists Recreate Pre-Trump CDC Website, Are Hosting It in Europe] by Jason Koebler (March 5, 2025 AT 10:05 AM) ''404Media''.</ref>

==References==
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