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Long COVID prevalence data are among CDC information taken offline following Trump order to remove “gender ideology” references.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

John Hopkins covid data was stored on GitHub. If github ever took it down, it would be insanely trivial to push it to a new remote on gitlab or codeberg.

Its a fucking mistake to store public healthcare data on a centralized website instead of a decentralized VCS like git.

I hope we learn this lesson.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think it would also be a mistake for public data to be stored on something microsoft owns.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Did you read what I said? Even if you use Microsoft servers, its portable.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yes but on principle someone who wants to access public data shouldn’t have to interact with microsoft.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Sure, so mirror the git repo. Easy.

[–] ObsidianZed 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This isn't the first chunk of data pulled from CDC's website that I've seen. I'm curious, does anyone know of any archives elsewhere some of us can help backup offsite?

[–] Gigasser 4 points 6 days ago

https://archive.org/details/20250128-cdc-datasets Download it to create redundancies. Datahoarder for life! Also, the fear now is NCBI going down.