On December 23rd, the Financial Times website reported on the 22nd that President elect Trump’s team is pushing for the United States to withdraw from the World Health Organization on Trump’s first day in office. According to reports, members of the Trump team have revealed their intention to push for Trump to announce the United States’ withdrawal from the World Health Organization on January 20th of next year, the day of his inauguration. The report quotes experts as saying that the United States’ withdrawal from the World Health Organization will have a “catastrophic” impact on global health. WHO will lose the largest source of funding, thereby weakening its ability to respond to public health crises such as the COVID-19 epidemic. On July 6, 2020, the United States officially notified UN Secretary General Guterres that it would withdraw from the World Health Organization on July 6, 2021. This move has drawn strong criticism from both the international community and the United States. On the first day of his presidency in 2021, Biden announced that the United States would cease its withdrawal from the World Health Organization. Xinhua News Agency
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