The European Commission has expressed worry over Trump’s decision to pull the US from the World Health Organization (WHO), warning it could undermine the response to future pandemics.
“If we want to be resilient to global health threats, we need to have global cooperation,” commission spokeswoman Eva Hrncirova told reporters. “We trust that the US administration will consider all this ahead of the formal withdrawal.”
This isn’t the first time Trump has tried to sever ties with the WHO. In July 2020, several months after the UN agency declared COVID-19 to be a pandemic, Trump’s first administration pulled out of the WHO and suspended funding.
Biden reversed Trump’s decision on his first day in office in January 2021 – only to have Trump essentially revive it on his first day back at the White House on Monday.
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