GENEVA (AN) — Nations and public health critics on Wednesday denounced the Trump administration's announcement that it will leave the 194-nation World Health Organization next year as an irresponsible and wrong-headed move away from international cooperation.
Several European ministers, Chinese officials and public health advocates reacted to U.S. President Donald Trump's withdrawal notice to United Nations a day earlier by describing it as an impediment to the world's disease-fighting efforts during a pandemic and to the United States' own health programs and standing. The U.S. pullout from WHO would take effect on July 6, 2021.
