What: Stat reports that a CDC database on infant and maternal health has been down for weeks, with state health departments specifically told by CDC to “cease data collection.” CDC says it will eventually be back up after the data “complies” with Trump executive orders, but it’s not clear when. In the meantime, experts say without the data “we cannot develop public health strategies to improve our maternal morbidity and mortality in the United States.”

Key line: “The CDC told STAT on Friday that the interruption is temporary, and was the result of needing to make the survey compliant with some of President Trump’s executive orders. ‘PRAMS was not shut down,’ Paul Prince, a spokesperson for the CDC, said in an email. ‘There were some schedule adjustments to ensure compliance with the Trump Administration’s Executive Orders, but these changes do not affect the continuation of the program.’ Prince declined to answer questions about what is being done to make the survey compliant or to specify the executive orders involved — although CDC has temporarily pulled down and made changes to other datasets to comply with Trump’s orders on DEI and gender.”

Source: Stat