CDC ordered to stop working with WHO immediately, upending expectations of an extended withdrawal
apnews.com
U.S. public health officials have been told to stop working with the World Health Organization, effective immediately. The surprise decision is focused on the U.S.
  • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world
    33·
    9 days ago

    The dumbest thing about this is that Trump was in office when we needed these organizations the most. Oversaw a global health crisis while in office, and then basically ignored it and focused on getting re-elected.

    Edit: that’s pretty much the only reason he didn’t get elected in a landslide. I remember thinking in 2019 the economy was doing well, and everybody attributed that to Trump (even tho economic anything lags executive branch policy by a few years, unless you do something extreme), i thought for sure he’s getting re-elected again in a landslide, to my dismay. Seriously, if the dude ever had a thought about anybody that wasn’t himself, it was how handsome and bigly his brain is that someone said about him.

    • MNByChoice@midwest.social
      12·
      9 days ago

      What is odd about it? He has done similar.

      https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-fire-pandemic-team/

      It’s thus true that the Trump administration axed the executive branch team responsible for coordinating a response to a pandemic and did not replace it, eliminating Ziemer’s position and reassigning others, although Bolton was the executive at the top of the National Security Council chain of command at the time.

      I remember hearing it on the news at the time.

      I am not finding it, but the USA hada vaccine mass production facility on standby for years that Trump scuttled.

      • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world
        8·
        9 days ago

        I didn’t say it was odd, I said it was dumb. He has a shining example from his first time in office of why we need this stuff, and he is ignoring it. He is a grade A moron if he thinks these things are unnecessary.