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President Donald Trump announced yesterday (April 14) that he is halting funding for the World Health Organization, pending a formal review of the global body’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, reports STAT.
“America and the world have chosen to rely on the WHO for accurate, timely, and independent information to make important public health recommendations and decisions,” Trump said in prepared remarks, according to STAT. “If we cannot trust that this is what we will receive from the WHO, our country will be forced to find other ways to work with other nations to achieve public health goals.”
Devi Sridhar, a global health expert at the University of Edinburgh in the UK, tells Science, “This is a short-sighted decision which will be disastrous for the agency. We need the WHO more than ever to support all countries, especially low and middle income ones.”
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