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.

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.

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.

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.