President Donald Trump last week issued an executive order to begin the process of withdrawing the U.S. from WHO, but that did not take immediate effect.

Sen. Raphael Warnock put Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in the hot seat during RFK Jr.'s first senate committee hearing as President Trump's pick to the lead the Department of Health and Human Services. Warnock questioned Kennedy's alleged comments comparing the work of the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to that of Nazi death camps.

WASHINGTON D.C., DC — Georgia Sen. Raphael Warnock and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had a tense exchange during his confirmation hearing Wednesday to examine the RFK Jr.'s qualifications to be the country's top health official.

The directive to the CDC to halt communications with the World Health Organization was imposed to comply with President Trump's executive order.

The White House has directed the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to cease all collaboration with the World Health Organization.

With federal health agencies such as the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention under a temporary freeze on public communications, some data and publications have not been released on their normal schedule.

A number of other health agencies are also operating without acting heads, including the FDA and the National Institutes of Health.

The Trump Administration has frozen many federal health agencies’ communications with the public until at least the end of the month.

Georgia Sen. Raphael Warnock pressed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. during a Senate Finance Committee to gain insight on how he would lead if confirmed as Health Secretary. Kennedy is President Trump’s nominee to run the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

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Staff at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have been told to halt all communication with the World Health Organization.