Source: Health Policy Institute of Ohio
Nearly half of the databases that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) used to update regularly — surveillance systems that tracked public health information like COVID vaccination rates and hospitalizations for respiratory syncytial virus — have been paused without explanation, according to new research (Source: Dozens of CDC Databases Aren’t Being Updated — Most Related to Vaccines, Study Finds, NBC News, January 26).
The findings, published on January 27 in the Annals of Internal Medicine, indicate that at the start of 2025, the CDC maintained 82 databases that were updated at least monthly. But by the end of October 2025, the study found, 38 had gone stale, with 34 showing no new entries at all in the previous six months.