Trump Did It. The U.S. Is Officially LEAVING the World Health Organization

The United States is officially dropping out of the World Health Organization.

Trump notified Congress on Tuesday that the U.S. is leaving the WHO. The departure will take effect in one year.

President Trump had threatened to pull out in late May and made it official shortly after the health organization’s latest coronavirus screw up.

The UN health body stealthily switched its official coronavirus timeline late last week reflecting that not only did China not report the novel coronavirus to WHO, but that WHO changed its story and claimed to have learned of it online instead.

Fox News reports that the switching of the dates pointed out the cozy relationship between the director-general of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, and China’s leaders.

According to multiple reports, the revisions were made on the WHO website on June 29, adding fuel to the fire that the Chinese leadership long purported to cover up the new virus, formally termed COVID-19, and that the WHO assisted them in doing so.

The revised text continues to maintain that on Dec. 31, 2019, “WHO’s Country Office in the People’s Republic of China picked up a media statement by the Wuhan Municipal Health Commission from their website on cases of ‘viral pneumonia’ in Wuhan, People’s Republic of China,” but adds that “the WHO’s open-source intelligence platform also picked up a Chinese-language news report from Finance Sina, a Chinese outlet, about the same cluster of cases in Wuhan, attributed to a ‘pneumonia of unknown cause.'”

Trump Follows Through on Threat to Leave the UN Health Organization

Once you get over the initial surprise that President Trump followed through on his threat you’re left with all the lies and screw-ups and cover-ups by the organization that got COVID-19 wrong from the get-go.

Trump called for the U.S. to get out of the health organization in late May citing its cozy relationship with China.

Because they have failed to make the requested and greatly needed reforms, we will be today terminating our relationship with the World Health Organization and redirecting those funds to other worldwide and deserving urgent global public health needs…

The world is now suffering as a result of the misfeasance of the Chinese government.

Chinese officials ignored their reporting obligations to the World Health Organization and pressured the World Health Organization to mislead the world when the virus was first discovered by Chinese authorities,” he said. “Countless lives have been taken and profound economic hardship has been inflicted across the globe.”

WHO on Trump’s Sh*t List

Here are just a few things that put WHO on Trump’s sh*t list:

WHO lied about where it found out about coronavirus
The health organization took China’s word for it that the virus appeared in late December, when it started earlier.
The health organization chastised Trump for instituting a travel embargo on China early in the pandemic
WHO took China’s word for it when it claimed that the virus did not travel from person to person
The health organization lavished praise on China for reacting quickly to the virus when it had not
WHO praised China for releasing the genome sequence for the virus, though it took a crucial 17 days to do so and under much pressure
WHO is so cozy with China that it removed Taiwan from a map and included it as part of China

As Reason.org put it, “WHO’s response destroyed much of its credibility, damaged the field of public health, and failed to contain the pandemic.”

Senator Bob Menendez said that Trump is leaving “Americans sick & America alone.” He also called Trump’s response to the pandemic “chaotic & incoherent.”

Others applauded Trump for having the guts to make good on his threat to get out, after all of WHO’s missteps and chumminess with China.

Trump froze the $400 million the U.S. gives yearly to WHO in April, announced he was taking the U.S. out in May, and in July announced that the U.S. is officially leaving.