DISRUPTION TO NATIONAL &GLOBAL FIGHT
Instead of coordinating efforts against the common enemy, the U.S. administration has stuck to its own ways against the spread of COVID-19.
At the national level, there is no effort "that has mustered anything like the funding, coordination, or real resources that experts across the political spectrum say is needed to safely reopen the country," said an article published by The Atlantic.
At the international level, Trump announced on April 14 that his administration would halt funding to the WHO. The announcement was then met with strong backlash and criticism across the world.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the WHO regretted the U.S. decision, calling on all nations to be united in the common struggle against the common enemy.
"President Trump's decision to defund WHO is simply this -- a crime against humanity," tweeted Richard Horton, editor-in-chief of The Lancet, adding that "every scientist, every health worker, every citizen must resist and rebel against this appalling betrayal of global solidarity."
"How shortsighted when global coop needed more now than ever," tweeted Lawrence Gostin, director of the O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University, referring to the White House's decision. And Washington has "entirely abandoned" U.S. global health leadership.
What the U.S. administration has done has severely harmed international cooperation the world needs to defuse the health crisis. Enditem
