The administration of Trump has completed the CDC infection control committee

The Trump administration has ended a Federal Advice Committee that has given guidelines to prevent the spread of infections in health facilities.

The Healthcare Infection Controll Praxis-Advisory Committee (HICPAC) has produced national standards for hand washing, mask and insulation of sick patients to follow most US hospitals.

Four members of the committee said that the centers for the control and prevention of diseases had delivered the news about the termination of Hicpac to the members on Friday.

In a letter checked by NBC News – who said after a virtual meeting that the CDC came into force more than a month earlier on March 31. According to the letter, the termination with the executive ordinance of President Donald Trump is in force in order to require a reduction in federal workers.

Four professional societies previously asked the secretary for health and human services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The CDC and the Department of Health and Human Services did not immediately answer on Tuesday when asked for comments.

Some of the committees' websites have been archived, which means that they are still available for the online perspective, but are no longer updated.

Some members now say that they fear that their guidelines will be frozen in good time and that they cannot develop with new scientific research or the spread of drug -resistant organisms that are a special threat to hospitals.

“At some point, when things have to change, the guidelines will probably not change, and then people have been flying to the seat of their pants since 2023 and former President of the Association for Experts for Experts in Infection Control and Epidemiology,” said Connie Steed, an Hicpac member.

Dr. Anurag Malani, a scholarship holder of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, who came to Hicpac in January, said that the committee was shortly before the completion of new guidelines for air pathogenic. The guidelines, which have not been updated since 2007, contained a controversial recommendation that would enable the surgical masks to prevent the spread of certain pathogens instead of N95 -Atemema protection masks.

“There was really a lot of important material there and I think many lessons from Covid, which formed these guidelines to bring us to a better place than before the pandemic,” said Malani.

Jane Thomason, the senior hygienist at National Nurses United – a professional association for registered nurses who criticized the new mask recommendations – complained about the loss of the committee. Hicpac appointed Thomason to a working group last year.

“While we had significant concerns about the make -up and the proposed guidelines from Hicpac, the termination of the committee eliminates important public transparency,” said Thomason in a statement on Tuesday. “Without the public meetings of HICPAC, there is no longer any public access to the process for the development of CDC instructions for infection control for health settings. This further undermines security for patients, nurses and other health care employees.”

According to the CDC letter on Friday, Hicpac has made 540 recommendations to the agency since it was founded more than three decades ago – of which 90% were fully implemented.

Malani said it was important that these recommendations are continued so that the infection control across the country remains consistent.

“You want to avoid government and local health departments try to find out yourself,” he said.