Judge Lifts Block on Trump’s Removal of Health Data, Webpages

Feb. 25, 2025, 3:43 PM UTC

A federal judge dropped a temporary restraining order against the Trump administration’s move to take down or modify public health data from government websites.

The order issued Monday by Judge John D. Bates of the US District Court for the District of Columbia lifted a demand that prohibited the Trump administration from removing certain online health webpages and to immediately restore them. Doctors and researchers said they needed the data to treat patients and track disease outbreaks in real time.

Bates ruled Feb. 11 that Doctors for America, a group representing thousands of doctors across the US, was likely to ...

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