The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has ended a committee that advised it on infection control.
The termination of the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee was done in accordance with one of President Donald Trump’s executive orders, a spokesperson for the Department of Health and Human Services, the CDC’s parent agency, told The Epoch Times in a May 8 email.
The order stated in part that advisers such as the assistant to the president for domestic policy needed to identify “governmental entities and Federal Advisory Committees that should be terminated on grounds that they are unnecessary.”
“CDC is committed to maintaining the highest standards of infection control and will continue its mission to protect public health and collaborate closely with healthcare professionals and partners,” the spokesperson said….