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Concerns about CDC reliability and local public health information dissemination
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Council Member Restler expresses concerns about the reliability of CDC information and asks about plans to provide New Yorkers with clear public health information. Commissioner Morse discusses strategies for ensuring accurate information dissemination and partnerships with state and regional health departments.
- Concerns raised about potential misinformation from federal sources
- Discussion of strategies to provide accurate public health information to New Yorkers
- Emphasis on partnerships with state and regional health departments
Lincoln Restler
2:42:03
Well, I think it's, you know, we're the ones who can help break through in culturally competent ways to the communities across New York that are not being as responsive as they should be to vaccinations.
2:42:14
And so I do think that this is a moment where we really need the health department to get a lot louder and be a lot more present in outreach campaigns and partnerships with each of us and our communities because these diseases are coming to our doorstep and the federal government is totally giving up their responsibility to do anything about it.
2:42:32
And so it's falling on you and us to help keep our communities safe.
2:42:35
I'm going shut up.
2:42:36
Last thing, I'm really concerned that we can no longer trust information from the CDC, that we no longer have a CDC that's going to be sharing information with us about what infectious diseases are breaking out and where and what we need to do about it.
2:42:49
In your role as commissioner, acting commissioner, are you thinking about how to convene stakeholders?
2:42:55
We have some of the leading public health experts at New York City, not just our health department, at New York City hospitals, research institutions, so that we can begin to try and provide New Yorkers with the clear basic information they need on how to stay safe from public health emergencies that are coming into our neighborhoods and communities?
Michelle Morse
2:43:12
We are also watching very closely the messages and the fact base of the information that's coming from the new federal government.
2:43:22
So believe me, it's one of our top concerns.
2:43:25
We are concerned about misinformation around vaccines.
2:43:28
That has been a concern of ours for quite some time.
2:43:31
Even before administration there were concerns about misinformation about vaccines.
2:43:36
So all those things considered, one of the ways that we're working to increase our ability to ensure that New Yorkers have accurate and scientific information is partnering even more closely with our colleagues in the state health department.
2:43:50
And I have found that to be very, very productive.
2:43:53
We're also in constant conversation with health departments and city health departments in the region of New York City to make sure, again, that we're all sharing information and that we're aligned.
2:44:03
But I would say that ultimately your support in getting the Article six match rate restored would be one of the most impactful ways that we could ensure that what you're describing actually happens.
Lincoln Restler
2:44:14
I've signed on to that letter with Katz Muhammed.
2:44:16
I'll just say, know, have all many of us have lost faith that this mayor is gonna stand up to president Trump and his appointees, but the medical professionals at health department have Hippocratic oath.
2:44:28
And we need you to speak out and speak up.
2:44:31
And we need you to educate New Yorkers to stay safe because the federal government is no longer a partner we can depend on.
2:44:37
Lastly, major cuts at the FDA were
Lynn Schulman
2:44:41
down.
Lincoln Restler
2:44:41
I mean, we're up I think slightly this year on restaurant inspections.