Ex-CNN editor Chris Cilizza conceded on Monday that he "screwed up" in his assessment of the lab leak theory, suggesting that President Trump was likely right about COVID's origins.
Public health experts say there could be massive implications after President Trump signed an executive order withdrawing the U.S. from the World Health Organization.
Trump returns to the White House as the tenth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic once again inundates hospitals, while the last vestiges of public health are set for destruction.
In a day-one executive order, President Donald Trump withdrew the U.S. from the World Health Organization for a second time.
President Donald Trump has ended the federal security detail for Dr. Anthony Fauci, the infectious disease expert who advised him on the COVID-19 pandemic.
Donald Trump has pulled the US out of the World Health Organisation (WHO), stating that the global health organisation mishandled the Covid-19 pandemic. In one of his first executive orders, the President said the agency failed to act independently from the “inappropriate political influence of WHO member states”.
President Donald Trump discussed his thoughts on the World Health Organization, expanding on some of the reasons he withdrew from the agency.
As he signed an executive order, President Donald Trump said that the World Health Organization had "ripped us off."
US President Donald Trump recently ordered a US exit due to dissatisfaction with WHO handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and other health crises.
The fate of trillions of dollars in federal grants and loans continue to hang in the balance on Wednesday after a federal judge temporarily blocked a Trump administration policy that aimed to pause the spending.
In 2020, Trump was highly critical of the WHO for being too "China-centric" in its tackling of Covid-19, and the organisation has since become a "target" of US conservatives over its work on a global pandemic treaty that they view as a "threat to American sovereignty", said the The New York Times.
Canada is prepared to offer pandemic-level financial support to workers and businesses if the US imposes tariffs. Officials emphasize that workers should not bear the costs of US decisions, referencing past Covid-19 responses as a model for potential aid.