Huang Yanling was named as Patient Zero in early online reports shared widely throughout China in early 2020, when the magnitude of the deadly virus was first coming to light.

World Health Organization chief says agency already cutting back on hiring and travel with Trump withdrawal set to hit funding.

President Donald Trump announced Monday he is withdrawing the US from the World Health Organization, a significant move on his first day back in the White House cutting ties with the United Nations’ public health agency and drawing criticism from public health experts.

The ending of the commitment to the World Health Organization by the United States poses as an existential threat to the well-being of the international working class.

Public health experts say the United States’ departure could cripple the WHO’s operations or leave an opening for China to assume greater control over the agency.

China, with a population of 1.4 billion, has 300 percent of the population of the United States, yet contributes nearly 90 percent less to the WHO,” said President Trump.

President Donald Trump has used one of the flurry of executive actions that he issued on his first day back in the White House to begin the process of withdrawing the U.S. from the World Health Organi

President Donald Trump’s decision to end U.S. membership in the World Health Organization revives a five-year-old grudge with the WHO’s leader. Trump has long charged that WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus covered up China’s responsibility for the Covid pandemic,

President Trump signed an executive order​ on the first day of his second term, beginning the process of withdrawing the U.S. from the World Health Organization.

The CIA now believes the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic most likely originated from a laboratory.

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