Despite President Donald Trump’s prohibition on the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention communicating with the World Health Organization, members of the former will be taking part in a vaccine webinar hosted by the latter.

A spokesperson for the CDC told the Daily Mail that agency employees “will be actively participating virtually” at the WHO conference on flu vaccines this week in London.

Under Trump’s executive orders, the CDC was barred from communicating with the WHO as the United States begins its withdrawal from the global health agency. The president pointed to the WHO’s failings during the COVID-19 pandemic and its close ties to China as reasons for withdrawing U.S. membership.

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