Public Health Scrambles To Figure Out Trump's Health Orders

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  It's Tuesday, January 28th.

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  I'm Jane Coastin, and this is what a day.

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  The show that we'll keep calling the Gulf of Mexico.

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  The Gulf of Mexico.

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  Sorry, Google.

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  This show is staying strong on critical issues like what gulfs are called.

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  On today's Show, Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis doesn't take rejection from his own party very well.

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  And the Tuskegee Airmen and World War II Women's Air Force service pilots will remain in the Air Force's basic military training.

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  But let's start with the Trump administration's war on public health.

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  At the same time as H5N1 bird flu is running rampant on farms and in flocks across the country.

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  Late Sunday, the Trump administration ordered federal health workers to stop working with the World Health Organization, effective immediately.

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  It followed President Trump's executive order last week to pull the US out of the WHO entirely, though many believed it would happen gradually.

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  And that's not all.

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  The Trump administration directed federal health agencies to stop almost all external communications, from updating websites to issuing scientific reports.

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  According to the administration, this is supposed to be a temporary measure ending on February 1st.

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  But the chaos is real, with conferences canceled and studies postponed and research that could save lives left up in the air.

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  Oh, and we're awaiting Robert F.

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  Kennedy Jr.

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  S confirmation hearings for a potential role as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services later this week.

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  All in all, not great.

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