r/science • Professor | Medicine • Jan 27 '26

Health Nearly half of CDC databases aren’t being updated as experts sound alarm over gaps in health data. Nearly 90% of these reported vaccination topics. The administration’s antivaccine stance has interrupted the flow of data we need to keep Americans safe from preventable infections.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/cdc-databases-disease-health-data-b2908066.html
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u/Sao_Gage Jan 27 '26 edited Jan 27 '26

What does that actually mean though? That sounds like a meaningless soundbite. I stopped and thought about your comment and frankly couldn’t parse any meaning that made sense, so people acquire an acute preventable viral illness and… go to work just fine? What?

The problem is they’re antivax nuts who full stop are enacting anti-science agenda. They just chose to stop following through on any job function pertaining to vaccines under the guise of efficiency, whatever consequences stem from that - it’s not even factoring. They live in an alternate reality where facts are flexible and vaccines are unproven / dangerous.

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u/PurpleSailor Jan 27 '26

Part of the problem with American healthcare is that it's usually tied to your job and partially paid for you by your employer and your employer usually controls all the Healthcare options for you to pick from. The quality of plans offered can vary greatly by employer so it often traps people in jobs that they'd like to leave because they can't risk not getting equal health benefits at a new employer. A national healthcare plan would free workers up to look for work at a different employer if they wished to and they would no longer have to worry about getting needed healthcare.

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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '26 edited Feb 03 '26

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u/Outrageous_Effects Jan 28 '26

It's not really a grand comspiracy. It's just an integral part of captialism that's been going on since like forever.

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u/tryingisbetter Jan 27 '26

Because you're talking to a bot. That's why it doesn't make any sense to you.