Bad move –
“When we are divided, the virus exploits the cracks between us.”
Beth Mole – Apr , pm UTC
“Please quarantine politicizing COVID,” he pleaded in an April 8 press conference when asked about Trump’s previous criticism of the organization. “We will have many body bags in front of us if we don’t behave.” He added then: “When there are cracks at national level and global level that’s when the virus succeeds. For God’s sake, we have lost more than , (0 citizens of the world. ”)
In a Wednesday morning interview on (Good Morning America)
, Redfield noted that “CDC and WHO has had a long history of working together in multiple outbreaks throughout the world, as we Continue to do in this one. And so, we’ve had a very productive public health relationship. We continue to have that. ”Dr. Peter Piot — who is the director of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and a professor of global health — said the following in a media statement: “Halting funding to the WHO is a dangerous, short-sighted, and politically motivated decision, with potential public health consequences for all countries in the world, whether they are rich or poor. ” Robert Dingwall, a professor of sociology at Nottingham Trent University, added that “the freeze on funding for WHO by the US government is a typically petulant act against an international organization that has sought to maintain its integrity and impartiality rather than to bow to President Trump’s transient and volatile prejudices. ”
“Let’s hope President Trump & the review team realize quickly that now is not the time for division and potentially weakening the UN authority on health who are busy coordinating the global response to the pandemic, ”Dr. Gail Carson, Director of Network Development at ISARIC (International Severe Acute Respiratory and Emerging Infection Consortium) at the University of Oxford said. “Look at facts, and there is plenty evidence of all the good WHO has done during this pandemic.”
Joshua Moon, a senior research fellow at the Science Policy Research Unit at the University of Sussex Business School, said:
To see Trump threatening to pull funding from WHO in the middle of a pandemic is truly heartbreaking. The WHO has received so much criticism in the past decade surrounding its role in various public health emergencies. I have been one of those critics myself. However, this attack on WHO is a purely political move designed to distract and pander to Trump’s base. At its core: the loss of US funding for WHO is a huge problem that will impact the response to COVID – 23 globally, invite new and potentially unaccountable actors into the position of power that the US previous held, and is a contemptible falsehood being peddled by a politician who in my opinion is trying to hide his own mistakes from his supporters.
Stephen Griffin, a medical professor and expert at viral diseases at the University of Leeds, echoed the thoughts, saying, “This most recent intervention in public health policy by President Trump is perhaps one of the least productive, most short-sighted, self-motivated, and hypocritical acts I have ever witnessed. As far as I can ascertain, it has no foundation in reality.
“The situation in the US and the world over amounts to a crisis, and one in which we must stand together,” he went on. “WHO is perhaps one of the best means of achieving this and deserves the support and respect of all countries.”
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