‘Rebuilding that capacity is no simple matter’

‘The cost of chaos at the CDC’

Leana S. Wen at The Washington Post

Nearly “half of the CDC’s routinely updated databases were paused without explanation between May and October 2025,” and “without up-to-date data, health officials cannot identify gaps or direct education and outreach where they are most needed,” says Leana S. Wen. When funding is “withdrawn at this scale, local and state governments have little realistic prospect to replace it.” Even if “some of the money is eventually restored through litigation...