In an apparent disregard for President Trump’s executive order to remove the United States from the World Health Organization (WHO), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced its intention to participate in a meeting alongside the global organization.
This Monday, the CDC announced its intention to participate in the World Health Organization-led influenza vaccination meeting, which takes place every two years.
“CDC will be actively participating virtually at the WHO vaccine consultation meeting for the recommendation of viruses for 2025-26 Northern Hemisphere Vaccine this week,” a spokesman for the CDC said.
Even though all staffers were ordered to cease working with the WHO by Trump’s executive order, the agency failed to specify whether it had been exempted.
U.S. withdrawal from the World Health Organization was swiftly approved by Trump shortly after he took office last month. Reasons given by the president include the World Health Organization’s “mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic,” the “failure to adopt urgently needed reforms,” and the imposition of “unfairly onerous payments” on the United States.
Trump, during a rally in Las Vegas a few days after issuing the order, hinted at a possible return to the World Health Organization (WHO) if its leadership “to clean it up a bit.”
Shortly after Trump’s order, the World Health Organization (WHO) released a statement in which it expressed regret for the president’s decision and hoped that the United States would reconsider.
In July 2020, while Trump was in office, he moved to pull the United States out of the World Health Organization (WHO). However, former President Joe Biden, who succeeded Trump, restored American involvement in the global health endeavor.
