CDC ordered to stop working with WHO immediately (opens in new tab)

(apnews.com)

16 pointsondrek1y ago4 comments

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Also worth noting that the order's demand to immediately quit the WHO and stop any funding is explicitly against the law from back the US helped found the organization in 1948.

At this rate, the next Executive Order will be that it's some-kinda-crime not to have sex with the President after he buys you a drink.

ondrekOP1y ago

The U.S. CDC abruptly halted all collaboration with the WHO, impacting efforts to combat global health threats, including Marburg virus, mpox, and bird flu, per a leaked memo.

ggm1y ago

I very much hope NIH and CDC can help walk some of this back. It goes to naked self interest outcomes: The US has massive exposure of risk.

It used to be the primary problem here was womens reproductive health. I am unsure that has anything to do with this, but perhaps the Trump goal here is to satisfy his god-bothering base, as well as "win one over" an agency he doesn't like.

As a non-american I am amazed that deliberately disclaiming control over an agency like this is held to be in US interests. Its so isolationist, it begs questions about how seriously NATO has things covered. Or AUKUS.

You would not want to bet on any current financial commitment being worth the paper it's written on.

9999000009991y ago

They're going to fire all the real scientists and replace them with kooks who think multivitamins and raw milk can cure serious illnesses.

https://www.supplysidesj.com/supplements/dietary-supplement-...

Blue states might be able to fill in the gap somewhat for they're residents.

I was actually looking to immigrate to a more functional country a few years back, but I couldn't make it happen.

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