Federal health agencies were ordered to pause all communications this week, but these Washington health organizations are still running.
The WHO is an agency of the United Nations tasked with coordinating responses to public health emergencies between nations. The United States is a founding member of the organization, which was set up in 1948 in the wake of World War II.
The CIA now believes the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic most likely originated from a laboratory.
The UN body has received a formal request from Washington to withdraw next year as Trump orders a pause on WHO funding.
The first week of President Donald Trump’s second term included several executive orders and actions that will be detrimental to public health.
Trump initially removed the U.S. from the WHO in 2020, but Biden reversed his action before it went into effect.
As part of his blitz of executive orders, President Trump delivered on a promise to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization. The Trump White House accuses the WHO of mishandling the COVID-19 pandemic and bias toward China.
One of President Trump’s first executive orders removes the U.S. from the global health organization, which experts say is “cataclysmic.”
The World Health Organization said Tuesday it regretted US President Donald Trump's decision -- just hours after taking power -- to withdraw his country from the UN agency, saying it hoped he would "reconsider".
President Donald Trump kicked off his second term with a flurry of executive actions on immigration, Jan. 6, health policy and more.
Spokesperson for the Chinese Embassy in the United States Liu Pengyu commented on the reports that the US CIA leans toward the theory that the COVID-19 pandemic originated from a virus leak at a labor