Breaking: Vital Long COVID data taken down following Trump order - The Sick Times
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A key source of U.S. Long COVID data is now offline following a purge of information related to sexual orientation and gender identity ordered by President Donald Trump’s administration. The Household Pulse Survey, a data collection effort by the U.S. Census and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), is among many CDC datasets and pages that became unavailable on Friday.

Long COVID prevalence data are among CDC information taken offline following Trump order to remove “gender ideology” references.

  • jagged_circle@feddit.nlEnglish
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    1 day ago

    John Hopkins covid data was stored on GitHub. If github ever took it down, it would be insanely trivial to push it to a new remote on gitlab or codeberg.

    Its a fucking mistake to store public healthcare data on a centralized website instead of a decentralized VCS like git.

    I hope we learn this lesson.

    • FundMECFSResearchOP
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      1 day ago

      I think it would also be a mistake for public data to be stored on something microsoft owns.

    • ObsidianZed@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      This isn’t the first chunk of data pulled from CDC’s website that I’ve seen. I’m curious, does anyone know of any archives elsewhere some of us can help backup offsite?