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Trump Under Fire for Halting WHO Funding Amid Coronavirus Pandemic

Leading health experts have labeled Donald Trump’s decision to cut funding to the World Health Organization (WHO) as a “crime against humanity” as coronavirus cases worldwide approach two million, with 126,000 deaths.

Richard Horton, the editor-in-chief of medical journal The Lancet, wrote that Trump’s decision was “a crime against humanity … Every scientist, every health worker, every citizen must resist and rebel against this appalling betrayal of global solidarity.”

The US President’s move also drew a rebuke from the head of the United Nations, who said the WHO was “absolutely critical to the world’s efforts to win the war against Covid-19.”

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said in a statement that now was not the time to reduce the global health watchdog’s resources to fight the pandemic. “Now is the time for unity,” he said.

Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft, described Trump’s decision “as dangerous as it sounds.”

Late on Tuesday Trump declared US funding would be put on hold for 60 to 90 days pending a review “to assess the World Health Organization’s role in severely mismanaging and covering up the spread of the coronavirus.” The United States is the single largest contributor to the WHO.

The US funds $400 million to $500 million of the WHO’s budget each year, Trump said, noting that China “contributes roughly $40 million.”

“Had the WHO done its job to get medical experts into China to objectively assess the situation on the ground and to call out China’s lack of transparency, the outbreak could have been contained at its source with very little death,” Trump said.

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