Emergency room physician Sonya Stokes faces an overwhelming number of flu patients while the CDC has ceased communication and reporting critical health data. The flu season has been particularly severe, with millions of illnesses and thousands of deaths. The CDC has stopped providing necessary information through global platforms like FluNet and FluID, leaving healthcare providers in the dark. This communication gap, coinciding with the U.S. withdrawal from the WHO, raises concerns for public health experts and slows down response efforts amid the ongoing outbreak.
CDC right now is not reporting influenza data through the WHO global platforms, FluNet [and] FluID, that they've been providing information [on] for many, many years.
We are blind, she said, stressing that without more information, the situation is dire for healthcare providers dealing with the flu crisis.
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