A screenshot of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services news website, as of Jan. 22, 2025, without news. Credit: CMS

The administration of President Donald Trump has suspended most public communications coming from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

The pause appears to apply to HHS agencies such as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics and the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, which reports on topics such as influenza outbreaks and diabetes prevalence data.

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Allison Bell

Allison Bell, a senior reporter at ThinkAdvisor and BenefitsPRO, previously was an associate editor at National Underwriter Life & Health. She has a bachelor's degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She can be reached through X at @Think_Allison.