Public health experts say U.S. withdrawal from the W.H.O. would undermine the nation’s standing as a global health leader and make it harder to fight the next pandemic.
Global health experts fear Donald Trump's plan to withdraw the US from the World Health Organization could roll back decades-long gains made in fighting diseases and increase pandemic risks.
President Donald Trump announced Monday he is withdrawing the US from the World Health Organization, a significant move on his first day back in the White House cutting ties with the United Nations’ public health agency and drawing criticism from public health experts.
The United States will leave the World Health Organization, President Donald Trump said on Monday, saying the global health agency had mishandled the COVID-19 pandemic and other international health crises.
Public health experts warn that pulling out of WHO, which Trump attacked for its response to COVID-19, will leave Americans more vulnerable to health threats.
Trump initially removed the U.S. from the WHO in 2020, but Biden reversed his action before it went into effect.
As he signed an executive order, President Donald Trump said that the World Health Organization had "ripped us off."
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President Donald Trump used one of the flurry of executive actions that he issued on his first day back in the White House to begin the process of withdrawing the U.S. from the World Health
Public health experts say there could be massive implications after President Trump signed an executive order withdrawing the U.S. from the World Health Organization.
One of President Trump’s first executive orders removes the U.S. from the global health organization, which experts say is “cataclysmic.”