Stories
Slash Boxes
Comments

SoylentNews is people

posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday July 08 2020, @04:22PM   Printer-friendly
from the everything-is-fine-here dept.

USA Today reports Trump has Officially Begun to Withdraw the US From the World Health Organization as Pandemic Spikes:

The Trump administration has officially begun to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization, even as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to grip the globe and infections spike in many states across the U.S.

Congress received formal notification of the decision on Tuesday, more than a month after President Donald Trump announced his intention to end the U.S. relationship with the WHO and blasted the multilateral institution as a tool of China. The White House said the withdrawal would take effect on July 6, 2021.

[...] The formal withdrawal comes as the United States nears 3 million reported coronavirus cases and more than 130,000 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University data. Globally, there have been 11.6 million cases and almost 540,000 deaths.

Additional Coverage:
Trump administration moves to formally withdraw US from WHO
Trump administration begins formal withdrawal from World Health Organization
Trump Begins Process Of U.S. Withdrawal From World Health Organization

Previously:
(2020-05-20) Trump Threatens to Take US Out of WHO Entirely and Stop All US Funding
(2020-04-15) Trump to Halt Funding to WHO


Original Submission

 
This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted.
Display Options Threshold/Breakthrough Mark All as Read Mark All as Unread
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.
  • (Score: 2) by http on Thursday July 09 2020, @12:29AM (4 children)

    by http (1920) on Thursday July 09 2020, @12:29AM (#1018437)

    More than I believe numbers coming out of, say, .

    Who knows which health officers in other states caved to threats?

    --
    I browse at -1 when I have mod points. It's unsettling.
    Starting Score:    1  point
    Karma-Bonus Modifier   +1  

    Total Score:   2  
  • (Score: 2) by http on Thursday July 09 2020, @12:32AM

    by http (1920) on Thursday July 09 2020, @12:32AM (#1018438)

    Stupid HTML closetag necessities.

    More than I believe numbers coming out of, say, Florida [washingtonpost.com].

    Who knows which other American health officers caved in the face of threats?

    --
    I browse at -1 when I have mod points. It's unsettling.
  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Thexalon on Thursday July 09 2020, @04:36PM (2 children)

    by Thexalon (636) on Thursday July 09 2020, @04:36PM (#1018707)

    Well, my state's director of public health quit after months of death threats against her and her family as well as guys regularly showing up to her house with AR-15's, and the cops doing absolutely nothing to protect her. Shortly after that, state policy on business closures and masks began to shift towards acting like Covid-19 didn't exist.

    Say what you will about terrorism, but it apparently works.

    --
    The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
    • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 09 2020, @05:36PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 09 2020, @05:36PM (#1018732)

      Is she a defund the police adherent? A Diangelo cultist? One of those public health officials who said protesting and rioting prevent COVID?

      Answers to these questions will influence my level of sympathy for her.

      • (Score: 2) by Thexalon on Thursday July 09 2020, @06:23PM

        by Thexalon (636) on Thursday July 09 2020, @06:23PM (#1018749)

        The state in question is controlled by Republicans, she was appointed by the Republican governor, and was pushed out by this organized right-wing campaign of credible death threats prior to the BLM protests.

        What she was doing that got the dudes with AR-15's mad at her was recommending that the governor follow the current advice from the WHO, international researchers, the CDC, county public health officials, university researchers in the state, and hospital systems at a time when all that information was in contradiction to what the president was saying. Which, when the governor followed that advice, did a fairly good although definitely not perfect job of containing the outbreak in his state.

        But I guess you consider threatening to murder public officials to be perfectly OK so long as those officials disagree with you in some way.

        --
        The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.