N Engl J Med. 2025 Jun 26;392(24):e55. doi: 10.1056/NEJMp2502567. Epub 2025 Mar 26.
Health data hosted by the U.S. federal government have been disappearing. According to our analysis, between January 21 and February 11, 2025, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) removed 203 datasets (13% of its online datasets, a reduction from 1519 to 1316).