The first discoveries of people infected with the COVID-19 virus were in Wuhan. Five years after the initial lockdown was imposed, the Chinese city has not yet recovered from the crisis.
Staff at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have been told to halt all communication with the World Health Organization.
World Health Organization chief says agency already cutting back on hiring and travel with Trump withdrawal set to hit funding.
China, with a population of 1.4 billion, has 300 percent of the population of the United States, yet contributes nearly 90 percent less to the WHO,” said President Trump.
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
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 Trump signed an executive order​ on the first day of his second term, beginning the process of withdrawing the U.S. from the World Health Organization.
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.
The CIA now believes the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic most likely originated from a laboratory.
On his first day, President Donald Trump withdrew the U.S. from WHO, a necessary step in putting the health of Americans first.
China on Monday dismissed the lab leak theory on COVID-19 origins proposed by the CIA, calling it baseless and emphasizing the need for scientific investigation, state media reported.