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Bad Words at the CDC

Robin Higgins
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The Trump administration has issued the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the nation’s top public health agency, a list of seven words or phrases to be avoided in official documents being prepared for next year’s budget. Some federal health officials are saying that calling this a word ban is overstating matters. Coming up, we look at why the words matter.

Guests:

  • Lena Sun, health reporter,
  • Bernadette Melnyk, vice president for health promotion, university chief wellness officer, dean and professor in the College of Nursing at Ohio State University, 
  • Rush Holt, CEO,
  • Michael Halpern, deputy director, Center for Science and Democracy at the

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