From a NY Times Op/Ed by By Nanna Bonde Thylstrup (Studies Data Loss at the University of Copenhagen and Richard Ovenden (Head of the Bodleian Libraries at the University of Oxford):
Presently, there is no clear way to avoid these impacts. Some of the deletions involving the C.D.C. and Food and Drug Administration were halted in February by a court order, but that probably saved only a small fraction of deleted pages. Solutions vary: The Trump administration’s purge of government databases