Trump administration rejects UN pandemic preparedness declaration

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Today's Top Stories - September 28, 2026

Today's Top Stories - September 28, 2026

The U.S. rejected a nonbinding United Nations declaration pledging international collaboration to improve pandemic preparedness and prevention, joining the European Union in objecting to the parts of the statement. 

Erica Schwartz, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in a speech Friday at a high-level United Nations meeting on pandemic preparedness said the U.S. had ideological concerns with the document and — despite negotiations — “critical issues remain unresolved.” 

“The United States is not in a position to support this text in full,” Schwartz said, citing “the inclusion of divisive ideologies that lack definitional consensus” as well as........

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