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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


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 09 2020, @12:45PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 09 2020, @12:45PM (#1018628)

    > Covid started in China

    Sentinel Surveillace of waste water says otherwise:

    Barcelona, 12 march 2019:
    https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.13.20129627v1 [medrxiv.org]

  • (Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Thursday July 09 2020, @02:09PM

    by hendrikboom (1125) Subscriber Badge on Thursday July 09 2020, @02:09PM (#1018657) Homepage Journal

    An as yet unrefereed report. But very suggestive of earlier existence of SARS-CoV-2.
    One wonders why the pandemic didn't explode from Barcelona in March 2019.
    Perhaps it was a different, less severe strain that responds to the same tests as the one causing the lethal epidemic?

    -- hendrik