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.

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 WHO is an agency of the United Nations tasked with coordinating responses to public health emergencies between nations. The United States is a founding member of the organization, which was set up in 1948 in the wake of World War II.

President Donald Trump’s decision to exit the World Health Organization means the U.N. agency is losing its biggest funder.

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.

Ooh, that’s a big one,” Donald Trump said Monday as he signed an executive order – one of dozens during his first hours as president – to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization.

Trump initially removed the U.S. from the WHO in 2020, but Biden reversed his action before it went into effect.

The first week of President Donald Trump’s second term included several executive orders and actions that will be detrimental to public health.

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Experts have also cautioned that withdrawing from the organization could weaken the world’s defenses against dangerous new outbreaks.

One of President Trump’s first executive orders removes the U.S. from the global health organization, which experts say is “cataclysmic.”

U.S. public health officials have been told to stop working with the World Health Organization, effective immediately. The surprise decision is focused on the U.S.