President Trump says he will halt funding to the World Health Organization (WHO) over its handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
Trump claimed the WHO had “failed in its basic duty and it must be held accountable”.
He also accused the UN agency of promoting China’s “disinformation” about the virus, which he said probably led to a bigger outbreak than would otherwise have happened.
Establishment figures and the mainstream media have accused President Trump of trying to deflect attention from his failures.
The United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said now is “not the time” to be cutting funding to the WHO, and the medical community has also criticised the move.
Dr Patrice Harris, president of the American Medical Association called it “a dangerous step in the wrong direction that will not make defeating COVID-19 easier”.
Dr William Schaffner, an infectious disease expert at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center said:
“This virus doesn’t need passports. In a few short months, it has travelled to all of the continents of the world except Antarctica. If there were ever an event that showed us how we need to work tougher as a global community, this is it.”
Others are saying this is the right move by the President with the WHO in the back pocket of China and numerous examples of it getting things wrong during the pandemic.
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