Public health experts say the United States’ departure could cripple the WHO’s operations or leave an opening for China to assume greater control over the agency.
President Donald Trump has 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 Organi
President Donald Trump’s decision to exit the World Health Organization means the U.N. agency is losing its biggest funder.
As of President Donald Trump’s first day back in office Monday, the United States is leaving the World Health Organization. Some local experts think such a move might leave Spokane and the United States unprepared for the next pandemic.
Federal health agencies were ordered to pause all communications this week, but these Washington health organizations are still running.
World Health Organization officials declared the 2019 novel coronavirus outbreak -- later to be dubbed COVID-19 -- a public health emergency of international concern.
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.
The ending of the commitment to the World Health Organization by the United States poses as an existential threat to the well-being of the international working class.
Trump initially removed the U.S. from the WHO in 2020, but Biden reversed his action before it went into effect.
The CIA now believes the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic most likely originated from a laboratory.
The United States will leave the World Health Organization on Jan. 22, 2026, the United Nations said on Thursday, after being formally notified of the decision by President Donald Trump, who has accused the agency of mishandling the pandemic and other international health crises.
One of President Trump’s first executive orders removes the U.S. from the global health organization, which experts say is “cataclysmic.”