Researchers across the country are in “a mad scramble” to sort out what public data the Trump administration has deleted from government websites.

State and local health officials are assessing effects of online changes involving national health datasets and informational pages previously available through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Doctors went up in arms after a Trump administration directive against “gender ideology” led to the purging of federal webpages containing crucial public health information. A memo from the Office of Personnel Management dated Jan.