Canadian residents are racing to save the data in Trump's crosshairs [View all]

Guerilla effort underway to preserve medical, environmental data from deletion

The call to Angela Rasmussen came out of the blue and posed a troubling question. Had she heard the rumour that key data sets would be removed from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's website the next day?

It's something Rasmussen had thought could never happen.

"It had never really been thought of before that CDC would actually start deleting some of these crucial public health data sets," said the University of Saskatchewan virologist. "These data are really, really important for everybody's health — not just in the U.S. but around the world."

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Since then, Rasmussen and her colleague have teamed up with others like American health-care data analyst Charles Gaba and turned their attention to other sites with health data, preserving information from departments and agencies like the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

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Rasmussen is just one of several Canadian residents who have joined what has become an international guerilla archiving effort to preserve copies of U.S. government web pages and data being rapidly taken offline by U.S. President Donald Trump's administration.

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-us-medical-environmental-data-1.7457627

Kudos to these Canadians!