petersuber<p>Update. "<a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/CDC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CDC</span></a>'s <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/STD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>STD</span></a> Lab Shuttered by <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> Layoffs"<br><a href="https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/stds/115065" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">medpagetoday.com/infectiousdis</span><span class="invisible">ease/stds/115065</span></a></p><p>"A critical laboratory for surveilling sexually transmitted diseases (<a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/STDs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>STDs</span></a>) in the US has been lost in the Trump administration's mass layoffs…One of its most remarkable projects is a one-of-its-kind repository of 50,000 isolates of gonorrhea used to monitor antibiotic resistance, which is quickly becoming a global health concern. The lab has been doing this work for nearly 40 years -- but will now, at best, have a gap in data."</p><p>Also see the public statement by the American Sexually Transmitted Diseases Association (<a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/ASTDA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ASTDA</span></a>).<br><a href="https://www.astda.org/statement-from-astda-on-cuts-to-the-cdcs-division-of-std-prevention/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">astda.org/statement-from-astda</span><span class="invisible">-on-cuts-to-the-cdcs-division-of-std-prevention/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Censorship</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/DefendResearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DefendResearch</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Funding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Funding</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Medicine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Medicine</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/OpenData" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenData</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Takedowns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Takedowns</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPolitics</span></a></p>