Pause on NIH Outside Communications Includes Purchase Orders

[iluvatar5150]

https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/24/health/nih-scientists-purchase-supplies-trump-administration-pauses-communications/index.html

Scientists at the National Institutes of Health have been told the communications pause announced by the Trump Administration earlier this week includes a pause on all purchasing, including supplies for their ongoing studies, according to four sources inside the agency with knowledge of the purchasing hold.

The supply crunch follows a directive first issued on Tuesday by the acting director of the Department of Health and Human Services, which placed a moratorium on the release of any public communication until it had been reviewed by officials appointed or designated by the Trump Administration, according to an internal memo obtained by CNN. Part of this pause on public communication has been widely interpreted to include purchasing orders to outside suppliers. One source noted they had been told that essential requests can proceed and will be reviewed daily.

Researchers who have clinical trial participants staying at the NIH’s on-campus hospital, the Clinical Trial Center, said they weren’t able to order test tubes to draw blood as well as other key study components. If something doesn’t change, one researcher who was affected said his study will run out of key supplies by next week. If that happens, the research results would be compromised, and he would have to recruit new patients, he said.

 

[Pommer]

https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/24/health/nih-scientists-purchase-supplies-trump-administration-pauses-communications/index.html

Wow, Trump was correct.
I am tired of him “winning”.

 

[essentialsaltes]

I heard on the interwebs that they can't buy food for the study patients.

 

[Pommer]

I heard on the interwebs that they can't buy food for the study patients.

That’ll affect outcomes!

 

[Nithavela]

Who thought writing executive orders would be this hard?

 

[Pommer]

Who thought writing executive orders would be this hard?

The King?

 

[SimplyMe]

That’ll affect outcomes!

Who thought writing executive orders would be this hard?

I think the Trump administration sees this as a benefit, not a problem.

 

[Pommer]

I think the Trump administration sees this as a benefit, not a problem.

I know that some Trump supporters cannot see that this is evidence for the “political-‘thought’” of
We could all have just a swell country if we only got rid of much of the government as it has been handed down to us!

(I also know that some do see it but think it a boon!

On the whole , I‘d prefer the ignorant.

 

[essentialsaltes]

State and local public health officials have gone weeks without regular updates on avian flu from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention after President Donald Trump froze nearly all external communications from the agency, said a person familiar with the situation. It wasn’t until this week that some of those communications began to resume, the person said.

Widespread funding cuts across the government and new restrictions on funding for National Institutes of Health grants have also created uncertainty among infectious disease researchers and local health officials, who are unsure about what resources they will have to work with going forward. Meanwhile, cuts to the U.S. Agency for International Development have limited monitoring of the virus overseas.

The White House didn’t respond to a request for comment on its strategy for addressing avian flu and what additional steps it planned to take to address the spread of the virus.

Rollins, who was confirmed by the Senate Thursday, told reporters that she had a briefing in the Oval Office Thursday night and would be announcing more on the department’s plan to address egg prices “in the coming days.”