https://time.com/7208937/us-world-health-organization-trump-withdrawal
President Trump is making good on his pre-election pledge to withdraw from the World Health Organization. In one of many orders issued after his inauguration, he announced the start of the process for terminating U.S. membership in the U.N. agency that oversees global health issues.
Trump’s frustration with WHO goes back to the height of the COVID era. He’s repeatedly criticized the organization for being too slow to respond to the pandemic and being “owned and controlled by China.”
There is nothing about leaving the WHO that’s a good idea. There is room for argument about how efficient it is and how much corruption there might be, but it’s basically a round table for public health, ranging from research to deploying medical and technological assets to combat public health concerns. Leaving it doesn’t make public health better in America because WHO can’t dictate US policy. All leaving WHO does is disconnect America from the conversations and cooperative work the rest of the world is doing.
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