Tuesday, January 28, 2025

CDC Ordered to Immediately Stop Working With WHO, Memo Says (Connecting the Dots: CDC, FDA, WHO, China & Soros Funding, All Networking)

CDC Ordered to Immediately Stop Working With WHO, Memo Says (Connecting the Dots: CDC, FDA, WHO, China & Soros Funding, All Networking)

The decision was made after Trump signed an order indicating the United States would pull out of the global health agency.

The Epoch Times

By Jack Phillips

1/27/2025 Updated:1/28/2025

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention headquarters in Atlanta on April 23, 2020. (Tami Chappell/AFP via Getty Images

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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.

he stop-work memo issued by Nkengasong applied to “all CDC staff engaging with WHO through technical working groups, coordinating centers, advisory boards, cooperative agreements or other means—in person or virtual,” while staff are not allowed to visit WHO offices.

Last week, the administration placed an immediate pause on all posts, reports, and communications issued by the CDC, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and other agencies within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). That pause will remain in effect until at least Feb. 1, according to an internal memo issued by acting HHS Secretary Dorothy Fink.

Some exceptions, Fink said, would be made for communications that impact “critical health, safety, environmental, financial or nation security functions.” Those statements would have to be reviewed beforehand, she added.

The order targeting the CDC isn’t the only Trump action involving the federal health agency. He also froze spending on an anti-HIV program, which was started by President George W. Bush decades ago. That was suspended as part of a broader freeze on foreign aid for at least 90 days.

Under Trump’s order signaling the United States will leave the WHO, it sets a 12-month notice period to leave the health body and stop all financial contributions to its work.  The order to withdraw from WHO did not take immediate effect as it requires the approval of Congress and that the United States will have to meet its financial obligations to WHO for the current fiscal year.

In a statement responding to Trump’s decision, WHO said it “regrets the announcement” and that it hopes “the United States will reconsider and we look forward to engaging in constructive dialogue to maintain the partnership between the USA and WHO, for the benefit of the health and well-being of millions of people around the globe.”

Trump selected Fink, an endocrinologist and career civil servant who had led the HHS Office on Women’s Health, to serve as interim HHS secretary while Senate confirmation gets underway for nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the agency. Kennedy is facing his first hearing before a Senate panel this week.

Trump has also selected former Florida Republican congressman Dave Weldon, a medical doctor, to head the CDC and named Johns Hopkins surgeon Marty Makary to lead the FDA. Those positions require Senate confirmation, too.

The president last week confirmed that he removed Secret Service protection for Dr. Anthony Fauci, the former longtime head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases who had served as a presidential advisor during the COVID-19 pandemic.

When asked about the decision on Jan. 24 in North Carolina, Trump told reporters, “You can’t have a security detail for the rest of your life because you worked for government.”

The Epoch Times contacted WHO and the CDC for comment Monday.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Connecting the Dots:

World Health Organization is a U.N. coordinating agency for World Health.

Rockefeller Foundation was a funder for the World Health Organization, the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank) and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank).

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank) was a funder for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank)

Margaret A. Hamburg was the VP for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank) and the commissioner for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Donald Kennedy was a trustee at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank) and a commissioner for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Jon M. Huntsman Jr. is a trustee at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank) and an ambassador to China for the Barack Obama administration.

J. Stapleton Roy is a trustee at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank) and was a U.S. ambassador for China.

Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank) and the Brookings Institution (think tank)

George Soros was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society and married in 2013.

Jim Yong Kim was a guest at George Soros’s 2013 wedding and a director, HIV-AIDS department for the World Health Organization (WHO).

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank) was a funder for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank)

Margaret A. Hamburg was the VP for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank) and the commissioner for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Donald Kennedy was a trustee at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank) and a commissioner for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Jon M. Huntsman Jr. is a trustee at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank) and an ambassador to China for the Barack Obama administration.

J. Stapleton Roy is a trustee at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank) and was a U.S. ambassador for China.

Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank) and the Brookings Institution (think tank) and  

George Soros was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society and is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations.

Open Society Foundations was a funder for the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank).

Mark B. McClellan was a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution (think tank) and a commissioner for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Robert Jeffrey is a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank) and was a board member for the CDC Foundation.

CDC Foundation is a foundation for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Amy Robbins Towers is a board member for the CDC Foundation, a director at the Human Rights Watch, was a director at the Millennium Promise and married to Larry Robbins.

Open Society Foundations was a funder for the Human Rights Watch.

George Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society and a benefactor for the Human Rights Watch.

Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Human Rights Watch,  the Millennium Promise and the Robin Hood Foundation.

Larry Robbins is a director at the Robin Hood Foundation and was married to Amy Robbins Towers.

Michael R. Bloomberg was a donor for the Robin Hood Foundation and is the founder of the Bloomberg Family Foundation.

Bloomberg Family Foundation was a funder for the CDC Foundation.

CDC Foundation is a foundation for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Resources: Past Research

CDC Director Announces Organization Changes for Faster Response to Health Threats (Connecting the Dots: CDC & Soros Funded Think Tanks) (Past Research on the CDC)

Thursday, August 18, 2022

https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2022/08/cdc-director-announces-organization.html

Sen. Marshall to Newsmax: WHO 'Bought and Paid for' by China (Connecting the Dots: The World Health Organization (WHO), FDA, COVID, China, The World Bank, The World Economic Forum, The Bretton Woods Committee & Soros Funding, All Networking) (Past Research on the World Health Organization)

Friday, January 24, 2025

https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2025/01/sen-marshall-to-newsmax-who-bought-and.html

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