{"id":2891,"date":"2020-06-09T20:11:46","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T20:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=2891"},"modified":"2020-06-09T20:11:46","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T20:11:46","slug":"trump-announced-us-withdrawal-from-the-who-its-unclear-if-he-can-do-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=2891","title":{"rendered":"Trump announced US withdrawal from the WHO. It\u2019s unclear if he can do that."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“the WHO did make some mistakes early on in the pandemic, such as\u00a0not pushing China to allow international inspectors into the country<\/a>\u00a0as the coronavirus outbreak grew, and falsely\u00a0asserting<\/a>\u00a0in January that \u201cChinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission\u201d of Covid-19.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n


\u00a0But that\u2019s a far cry from proof of some special WHO-China conspiracy, and serves as a convenient excuse to distract from Trump\u2019s lacking coronavirus response in the US \u2014 including\u00a0ignoring months of US intelligence warning of an imminent threat<\/a>\u00a0to the country from the virus.”\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…
“the president\u2019s decision will be a major blow to the WHO. America\u2019s withdrawal means the health body will lose nearly $900 million<\/a> in US contributions every two years, by far the most the body receives from any nation. Trump had already frozen about $400 million<\/a> of that money last month when he first froze funding during a review of US-WHO relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The US will now be \u201credirecting those funds to other worldwide and deserving urgent global public health needs,\u201d Trump said, without naming what those might be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In one fell swoop, Trump is making the global coronavirus response harder to coordinate, has possibly ignited a congressional firestorm, and almost surely worsened the world\u2019s perceptions of America.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2020\/5\/29\/21274949\/coronavirus-trump-world-health-organization-withdraw<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“the WHO did make some mistakes early on in the pandemic, such as not pushing China to allow international inspectors into the country as the coronavirus outbreak grew, and falsely asserting in January that \u201cChinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission\u201d of Covid-19. <\/p>\n

But that\u2019s a far cry from proof of some special WHO-China conspiracy, and serves as a convenient excuse to distract from Trump\u2019s lacking coronavirus response in the US \u2014 including ignoring months of US intelligence warning of an imminent threat to the country from the virus.” <\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“the president\u2019s decision will be a major blow to the WHO. America\u2019s withdrawal means the health body will lose nearly $900 million in US contributions every two years, by far the most the body receives from any nation. Trump had already frozen about $400 million of that money last month when he first froze funding during a review of US-WHO relations.
\nThe US will now be \u201credirecting those funds to other worldwide and deserving urgent global public health needs,\u201d Trump said, without naming what those might be.<\/p>\n

In one fell swoop, Trump is making the global coronavirus response harder to coordinate, has possibly ignited a congressional firestorm, and almost surely worsened the world\u2019s perceptions of America.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[588,409,483,221,355,314,170,703],"class_list":["post-2891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-corona","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-donald-trump","tag-foreign-policy","tag-international-relations","tag-trump","tag-who"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2891"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2892,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2891\/revisions\/2892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}