CDC seems to defy Trump executive order by participating in WHO vaccine conference ... The World Health Organization logo is seen near its headquarters in Geneva on Feb. 2, 2023.

The CDC, a $9.2 billion-a-year agency tasked with reviewing life-saving vaccines, monitoring diseases and watching for budding threats to Americans' health, is without a clear leader.

The logo and building of the World Health Organization (WHO) headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, on April 15, 2020. (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP, file) "People thought there would be a slow ...