FDA allowed to help WHO update flu shots, despite Trump ban
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The Food and Drug Administration was allowed to participate in the World Health Organization's meeting this week on updating influenza shots, officials for the U.N. agency said, despite an order by President Trump last month banning government employees from working with the WHO. The administration has granted some exemptions to the order.
"FDA, the same as CDC, participated in the vaccine composition consultation that just finished. They contributed again with the data package. So they participated as in the past," Dr. Wenqing Zhang, head of the WHO's global influenza program, told reporters on Friday.
A source familiar with the exemption told CBS News that the FDA is able to work with the WHO on "public health outbreak and emergency response."
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