The United States will withdraw from the World Health Organization (WHO), President Donald Trump announced on Monday, citing the global health agency’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and other international health crises.
Trump criticized the WHO for failing to operate independently of “inappropriate political influence from its member states” and for imposing “unfairly burdensome payments” on the U.S., which he argued were disproportionate compared to contributions from larger countries like China.
“The World Health Organization ripped us off, just like everyone else does to the United States. That ends now,” Trump declared while signing an executive order formalizing the withdrawal shortly after beginning his second term as president.
The WHO has not yet responded to requests for comment.
When asked about Trump’s decision, China’s foreign ministry stated at a press briefing on Tuesday that the WHO’s role in global health governance should be strengthened rather than weakened.
“China will continue to support the WHO in fulfilling its responsibilities and will deepen international cooperation in public health,” said ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun.
The decision sets the U.S. on track to leave the United Nations health agency in 12 months, halting all financial contributions. The United States currently provides around 18% of the WHO’s overall funding. The agency’s most recent budget for 2024–2025 is $6.8 billion.
Trump’s decision to leave the WHO is consistent with actions he took during his first term. In 2020, he began steps to withdraw from the organization, accusing it of aiding China in “misleading the world” about the origins of COVID-19.
The WHO has strongly denied these allegations, stating it continues to press Beijing for data to determine whether COVID originated from human-animal contact or from research into similar viruses at a laboratory in China.
Trump also suspended U.S. financial contributions to the WHO during his first term, depriving the agency of nearly $200 million in funding for 2020–2021.
Under U.S. law, withdrawing from the WHO requires a one-year notice period and the payment of any outstanding dues. The last withdrawal attempt was halted when Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election and reversed the decision on his first day in office, January 20, 2021.
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Symptoms of bird flu in humans may include red, inflamed eyes, fatigue, fever and headaches.”
“Something like the common flu then, right?”
CDC now insisting on universal bird flu testing of hospital patients
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.”
-H.L. Mencken
The Public Health™ technocrats need to scare up some more positives to get things moving, and what better way than sourcing them from patients already in the hospital, unlikely to protest?
Related: HHS Set to Roll Out Bird Flu Vaxes by the Millions
You might recall the federal edict issued by the Brandon entity back in September 2021 for universal COVID testing for all workers at companies with more than 100 employees, accompanied by the barely-concealed threat that “our patience if wearing thin” (with the unvaxxed).
In the same vein, the CDC has “recommended” (which effectively means “mandated” if these hospitals want to keep their Medicaid bucks flowing) universal bird flu testing for patients who test positive for the general flu (influenza A).
“The CDC is calling on doctors and hospitals to perform subtyping on all hospitalized patients who test positive for influenza A, ideally within 24 hours of admission.
As CNN goes on to explain, there’s a lot of cash money on the line from investors who have dumped billions in the aggregate into mRNA tech and won’t see it squandered on non-pandemics. If bird flu PCR terror is what they need to ramp up demand for their junk, bird flu PCR terror is what they’re going to get.
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One of the newest investments, announced Thursday, was $211 million to support the development and long-term manufacturing capability of an RNA-based vaccine platform technology to combat evolving 21st century biothreats, including bird flu.
Dr. Eric Deeble, who is leading the bird flu response at the US Department of Agriculture, said there are about 300 people dedicated to the response “across the agency.””
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