Trump says halting U.S. funding to WHO
U.S. President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that his administration is halting the nation’s funding to the World Health Organization (WHO), a move experts have warned against, as COVID-19 continues to take a toll globally.
Speaking to reporters at the White House, Trump also said a review is being conducted to assess the WHO’s role in addressing the spread of the coronavirus.
The announcement came as Trump is aggressively defending his own handling of the outbreak in the United States after the administration has been scrutinized for downplaying the threat from the coronavirus early on and faulted for delays in testing.
The tone also differed from one of his tweets on Feb. 24, several days before the United States reported the first death from COVID-19.
“The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA,” Trump wrote at that time.
“We are in contact with everyone and all relevant countries. CDC & World Health have been working hard and very smart.”
Lawrence Gostin, director of the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University, called cutting funding to the WHO during a global health crisis “disgraceful,” warning that it would cause death and even blow back on the United States.
“How shortsighted when global coop needed more now than ever,” Gostin said in a series of tweets on Tuesday.
In remarks delivered from Geneva last week, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said, “We must quarantine politicizing this virus at national and global levels.”
“We have to work together, and we have no time to waste,” he added.
According to a tally from Johns Hopkins University on Tuesday, the United States has reported more than 600,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 25,575 deaths, both the highest on record.
Globally, the number of cases is approaching 2 million, as the death toll has surpassed 125,000, the tally showed.
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WHAT A DISGRACE !
ACTIONS DISPLAYED BY THE UNITED STATES PRESIDENT DURING THIS TERRIBLE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC ARE NO BETTER THAN THOSE OF A SCHOOL YARD BULLY.
SOME COMMENTATORS HAVE DESCRIBED THIS INDIVIDUAL AS BEING A NARCISSISTIC BUFFON BUT I THINK THAT IS FAR TOO POLITE.
THE WORLD WOULD DO WELL TO FERVENTLY HOPE THAT VICE PRESIDENT BIDEN IS ELECTED AS PRESIDENT IN NOVEMBER THIS YEAR.
The US is $200 million in arrears to the WHO as it is (despite Congress having approved the funds). But then Trump’s extensive use of Chapter 11 Bankruptcy provisions for his own companies (at least 4 times) shows that he is a man who does not worry about defaulting upon payments due.
Trump is 100% right.
Dr. Tedros is not a physician. He is a Marxist that is in the pocket of the Communist Chinese.
The primary mission of the WHO is to identify and see contagions in their early stages and warn the world.
But the WHO failed in this and accepted Chinese propaganda without doing any work.
The entire world knows China lied and continues to lie about the number of deaths they had.
Just like the UN, the WHO is a useless organization taking billions from nations and giving little in return.
Failure on this scale cannot be dismissed by playing politics.
The continuation of the mass and incompetent Leadership, that globally is being displayed, to the entire world ,from The Oval Office of the 45th Elected – President of the United States of America, is HORRENDOUS.
Trump – continues to misinform – avoid – twist – fabricate TRUTH – manipulating Facts into Lies, , that the TRUTH is there but Trump, is characteristically unable due to his incompetency, to acknowledge FACTS & Truth, that have and continue to be rightly “heaved” at him.
This is the embeddedness of his behaviour, that WE all witnessed knew of prior to this novel coronavirus pandemic.
He is unfit – refering to his curriculum vitae and his pre Presidential appointment. to occupy the position that he holds to-day.
REMEMBER – he was NOT the peoples number one choice to become the 45th President of the United States of America BUT there tired out of date political system, the way they appoint there Presidents – “you do the crime and pay the time” – America.
America – hopefully come November 2020 – will eliminate him from the Oval Office.
The World will be a Winner if and when this does Happen.
History, the Watergate Scandal of the 1970’s under the Presidency of Richard Milhous Nixon, – what will be proven unequivocally when Trump is removed, what transpired out of the Watergate Scandal, will appear minuscule in it’s ramifications / legacy on the United States of America, in compassion, to the infamous – tragic – disastrous – globally dangerous time – created and driven by his personal incompetence – under the Presidency of Donald Trump.
Trump will not leave office with America saying – ” he leaves this place better for having been here” .
He will leave office disgraced and America declining further into the abyss that it has been gathering enormous speed, out of control, especially in international relationships, throughout Trumps term of infamous office.