Trump Administration Ordered to Restore US Health Data Online

A federal judge in Washington ordered the Trump administration to immediately restore certain public health information removed from websites in recent days that doctors and researchers said they needed to treat patients and track disease outbreaks in real time.

US District Judge John Bates on Tuesday issued a temporary restraining order after determining that the membership group Doctors for America, which suedlast week, was likely to succeed in arguing that federal agencies failed to provide advance notice or engage in “reasoned decision making” as required by US law. He also said the loss of data access risked public health ...