Charles Gaba of Bloomfield Township, a major Democratic Party fundraiser and past political candidate, has archived CDC web pages which are being purged by the Trump Administration. Much of the data on these CDC pages is bogus and was politically goal seeked. Gaba used goal seeked CDC data to develop his vitiated conclusion that Michigan counties which voted for Trump in 2020 incurred more COVID-19 deaths than those counties which voted for Biden in 2020. This study was completely worthless due to CDC's very creative accounting for COVID-19 deaths, which attributed all kinds of different deaths to COVID-19 in 'Trump Counties', but many (if not most) of these deaths that were actually due to other causes.
Michigan health care analyst keeps CDC information online after Trump administration data purge
By Jon King - February 3, 2025As the Trump administration begins to purge a swath of official government web pages of information and data, a Michigan health care analyst and Democrat has created an easily accessible page with links to copies of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) website made last week.
The data being deleted runs the gamut from LGBTQ+ health to the causes of HIV, all apparently in compliance with executive orders issued by President Donald Trump on his first day in office opposing gender diversity and ordering agencies to “remove all statements, policies, regulations, forms, communications, or other internal and external messages that promote or otherwise inculcate gender ideology.”
In response, Charles Gaba of Bloomfield Township, who founded ACASignups.net, a website that tracks Affordable Care Act data and health issues, on Sunday posted links to archived versions of 7,200 individual pages which were available at CDC.gov as of Jan. 27.
“It’s something which has been on my mind since Nov. 6 [the day after the presidential election], and if anything I wish I had taken action prior to Jan. 20 [Inauguration Day], since it’s possible that some critical data was already quietly purged in that first week before it became publicly known that they were doing so,” Gaba told the Michigan Advance.
Gaba said it’s important to note that all he is providing on his website are links to the most recently archived versions of the pages, which he said were actually mirrored by the Internet Archive, a nonpartisan 501(c)(3) nonprofit.
“There are plenty of simple tools available which let anyone download most of the public-facing HTML files (i.e. webpages) of most websites. And in this case, these are taxpayer-funded sites specifically intended for the public,” said Gaba. “The actual datasets themselves — some of which may involve terabytes of data — have been archived by others in ways which go far beyond my capabilities or resources.”
Gaba believes that in the short-term, the Trump administration probably only deleted a small portion of the public record so far, but points out that it’s only been less than two weeks since Trump took office.
“There’s also the possibility that they’ve modified some of the pages/data which hasn’t been outright deleted … or that they’ll do so in the future. All of this makes it critical to preserve as much of the actual record as possible,” he said.
Among the pages that are no longer accessible on the CDC website is CDC AtlasPlus, an interactive database that contained more than a decade of surveillance data for HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases, and HIV surveillance reports that date back to the beginning of the epidemic in the 1980s.
Dr. Rob Davidson, an emergency physician in West Michigan and executive director of the Committee to Protect Health Care, told the Advance that the loss of access to critical medical data places politics above people’s lives.
“The purge of health-related information on federal government websites is deeply concerning to physicians who want our patients to have access to trustworthy information based in medicine, not ideology,” said Davidson. “Particularly when so many Americans of all backgrounds still lack access to affordable health care — and more threats to access loom on the horizon — access to free, credible health resources on the internet is critical. We worry that stripping these resources from the web will mean even worse health outcomes for patients, and that removing data will impede much needed research on how to actually make Americans healthier.”
Gaba says the entire situation has a real “Big Brother” feel to it, which is why he posted a passage from George Orwell’s “1984” at the top of his featured blog entry that reads, in part:
“Most of the material that you were dealing with had no connexion with anything in the real world, not even the kind of connexion that is contained in a direct lie. … And so it was with every class of recorded fact, great or small. Everything faded away into a shadow-world in which, finally, even the date of the year had become uncertain.”
Purging goal seeked, political propaganda disguised as 'scientific data' does not deserve any reference to 1984. That kind of propaganda was exactly what Eric Arthur Blair was railing against throughout his magnum opus.
Bush Judge orders restoration of CDC data. None of the media reports disclose that Doctors for America (DFA) used to be Doctors for Obama. Charles Gaba of Bloomfield Township is a board member of DFA. Also not mentioned: Public Citizen, which is representing DFA, is Ralph Nader's political front:
Judge orders health agencies to restore data scrubbed by Trump administration
By Zach Schonfeld - February 11, 2025A judge ordered federal health agencies Tuesday to restore online datasets taken down after President Trump issued an executive order prohibiting the government from promoting “gender ideology.”
U.S. District Judge John Bates agreed to issue the temporary order in favor of Doctors for America (DFA), a left-leaning physicians advocacy group that sued by claiming the scrubbing violated federal law.
After holding a hearing Monday, the judge agreed it likely violated a provision requiring agencies to provide adequate notice before terminating significant information products.
“This opinion has documented the harm DFA members have suffered and will continue to suffer absent intervention, but the harm extends beyond them,” Bates, an appointee of former President George W. Bush, wrote in his ruling.
“DFA has also supplied declarations from doctors around the country who, although not DFA members themselves, are representative of the widespread disruption that defendants’ abrupt removal of these critical healthcare materials has caused,” he added.
Federal health agencies were ordered to scrub the data by last Friday after Trump signed an executive order on his first day in office stating that the U.S. will recognize only two sexes.
Agencies like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Food and Drug Administration removed various public datasets, like the Drug Youth Risk Behavioral Surveillance System, the data and statistics webpage for Adolescent and School Health and the webpages for the Social Vulnerability Index.
Several sites focusing on HIV/AIDS were also temporarily taken down as federal employees scrambled to comply with the order.
Health care workers and researchers regularly use the data, leading them to rush to archive the information before the government pulled it down.
Zachary Shelley, an attorney at Public Citizen, which represents the physicians’ group, told the judge at Monday’s hearing that doctors were already being harmed by the websites being taken down.
“You can’t put the toothpaste back in the tube that has already come out,” Shelley said. “You can stop it from flowing out going forward. Every day that this goes on, there’s harm to the doctors and their patients and public health.”
James Harlow, a Justice Department senior trial attorney, urged the judge to not grant the emergency request. The government argued the physicians group lacks legal standing, it hasn’t shown it will face irreparable harm and the scrubbing was not a “final agency action” subject to the courts’ review.
“Each argument has substance, but none prevail,” the judge wrote.
Harlow also insisted the notice provision central to the plaintiffs’ challenge did not apply.
“There’s no evidence that plaintiffs have offered that this is in fact the endpoint of the CDC review of these websites,” he said.
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