US President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team is pushing to pull America out of the World Health Organization on its first day in office, the Financial Times reports, citing public health experts concerned about the potential impact.
“America is going to leave a huge vacuum in global health financing and leadership. I see no one that is going to fill the breach,” one of the experts is quoted as saying.
The US is the WHO’s largest donor, contributing about 16 percent of its funding in 2022-23, according to the Financial Times.
Trump cut ties with WHO in 2020 during his first term, charging that the UN public health agency had failed to do enough to combat the initial spread of the novel coronavirus.
He recently announced vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as his nominee to run the US Department of Health and Human Services.
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