AXIOS January 27, 2025
President Trump’s orders to freeze some work and communications at government health agencies and begin a U.S. pullout from the World Health Organization are rattling clinicians and researchers, who fear they’re the leading edge of a broad anti-science agenda.
Why it matters: Policy experts and researchers are mobilizing for a fight over the politicization of science that stems from — and could rival — the clashes over the COVID-19 response.
State of play: Health and Human Services this week halted most outgoing communications, travel and grant reviews among its agencies — a directive that even prevented National Institute of Health researchers from purchasing supplies for clinical trials.
- Trump also blocked the disbursement of funds for global HIV work through...
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