Officials in the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) were ordered to stop working with the World Health Organization (WHO), effective immediately, according to a memorandum that was sent out this week.
John Nkengasong, a CDC official, issued a memo on Sunday to senior agency leaders that staff working with WHO must immediately stop their collaborations and “await further guidance.”
The move was made after President Donald Trump signed an executive order last week to extricate the United States from the WHO over what it said was the organization’s “mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic that arose out of Wuhan, China, and other global health crises,” among other issues….