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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 microbes, viruses, 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 diseases, but has since branched out to help provide information on things ranging from heart disease to obesity.

Unlike FEMA, the CDC has the authority to intern large numbers of Americans in the event of a sufficiently serious disease outbreak.[1] Cranks don't seem to have noticed this, however (except InfoWars, of course).[2]

## Contents

* 1 CDC "coverup" manufactroversy
* 2 Censorship
* 3 See also
* 4 External links
* 5 References

## CDC "coverup" manufactroversy[edit]

See the main article on this topic: CDC whistleblower controversy

The 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 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[edit]

In 2025, the 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";[3][4] the order itself falsely conflated gender with sex.[5] The President of the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the Chair of the HIV Medicine Association issued a joint statement, writing:

“”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 infections 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[6]

## See also[edit]

* FDA — also under the HHS

## External links[edit]

* censored CDC website by the Trump administration, starting in 2025
* CDC website — an archive based in Europe of the pre-censored CDC website[7]

## References[edit]

1. ↑ Legal Authorities for Isolation and Quarantine, CDC
2. ↑ "If Ebola Hits US, Even Healthy Americans Will Be Quarantined!"
3. ↑ Removal of pages from CDC website brings confusion, dismay by Chris Dall (February 3, 2025) CIDRAP, University of Minnesota.
4. ↑ Archivists Recreate Pre-Trump CDC Website, Are Hosting It in Europe by Jason Koebler (Mar 5, 2025) 404 Media.
5. ↑ 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.
6. ↑ Removal of HIV- and LGBTQ-Related CDC Webpages Creates Dangerous Gaps in Scientific Information (1/31/2025) Infectious Diseases Society of America.
7. ↑ Archivists Recreate Pre-Trump CDC Website, Are Hosting It in Europe by Jason Koebler (March 5, 2025 AT 10:05 AM) 404Media.

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