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

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.

Public health experts say U.S. withdrawal from the W.H.O. would undermine the nation’s standing as a global health leader and make it harder to fight the next pandemic.

As of President Donald Trump’s first day back in office Monday, the United States is leaving the World Health Organization. Some local experts think such a move might leave Spokane and the United States unprepared for the next pandemic.

President Donald Trump’s decision to exit the World Health Organization means the U.N. agency is losing its biggest funder.

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.

World Health Organization officials declared the 2019 novel coronavirus outbreak -- later to be dubbed COVID-19 -- a public health emergency of international concern.

WHO, the United Nations health agency that helps protect the health and security of the world ... event in Washington, DC, on Monday. - Matt Rourke/AP Trump first tried to exit WHO during his first term in 2020, accusing the organization of “severely ...

Trump initially removed the U.S. from the WHO in 2020, but Biden reversed his action before it went into effect.

Experts have also cautioned that withdrawing from the organization could weaken the world’s defenses against dangerous new outbreaks.

As part of his blitz of executive orders, President Trump delivered on a promise to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization. The Trump White House accuses the WHO of mishandling the COVID-19 pandemic and bias toward China.

One of President Trump’s first executive orders removes the U.S. from the global health organization, which experts say is “cataclysmic.”