Trump officials ask US health agencies to pause external communications, Washington Post reports

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The medication of U.S. President Donald Trump has instructed national wellness agencies to intermission each outer communications, specified arsenic wellness advisories, play technological reports, updates to websites and societal media posts, the Washington Post reported connected Tuesday, citing a twelve existent and erstwhile officials and sources.

The instructions were delivered connected Tuesday to unit astatine agencies wrong the Department of Health and Human Services, including officials astatine the Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and National Institutes of Health, the paper reported. The agencies had nary contiguous comment.

Trump took bureau connected Monday.

The Washington Post said that it was not wide from the guidance fixed by the caller medication whether the directive would impact much urgent communications, specified arsenic foodborne illness outbreaks, cause approvals and caller vertebrate flu cases.

Stefanie Spear, a Department of Health lawman main of staff, instructed bureau unit connected Tuesday greeting to intermission outer communications, the paper reported.

Some officials cited by the paper were quoted arsenic saying that the determination is aimed astatine helping recently installed Trump wellness officials recognize the immense travel of accusation coming retired of wellness agencies.