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Mississippi declares infant deaths emergency as CDC program that could have helped is halted (www.theguardian.com)

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The Trump administration’s shakeup of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has forced Mississippi to stop gathering critical data on women’s experiences before, during and after pregnancy – even as the state recently declared a public health emergency over its surging infant mortality rate.

Mississippi has suspended data collection for Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (Prams), a national database that has been integral to policymaking on maternal and infant health for nearly four decades, the Guardian has learned.

Prams functions as a partnership between state-level health officials and a little-known but influential CDC agency called the Division of Reproductive Health, which has lost most of its staff – nearly 100 people – in the Trump administration’s purges of federal workers, according to records in a lawsuit filed by several Democratic-led states over the purges.

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[–] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Give the shortened lifespans for the children that you voted for, or didn’t vote against.

[–] whiwake@lemmy.cafe 5 points 9 months ago

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