{"id":238292,"date":"2020-05-29T18:19:32","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T22:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=238292"},"modified":"2020-11-14T11:07:06","modified_gmt":"2020-11-14T16:07:06","slug":"us-terminating-relationship-with-world-health-organization-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/bg\/us-terminating-relationship-with-world-health-organization-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"US \u2018terminating relationship\u2019 with World Health Organization \u2013 Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: <\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>Another great decision. WHO is in the hands of oligarchs instead of real scientists.<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__summary summary \">Accusing the World Health Organization of being under \u2018total control\u2019 of China, US President Donald Trump has severed all ties to the WHO and said US funding will be redirected to other public health efforts.<\/div>\n<div class=\"article__text text \">\n<p><em>\u201cWe will today be terminating our relationship with the WHO,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Trump announced on Friday at a press conference in the White House Rose Garden.He said that the WHO was\u00a0<em>\u201cpressured\u201d<\/em>\u00a0by China to mislead the world about the novel coronavirus, hampering the US and global response and resulting in hundreds of thousands of deaths worldwide \u2013 including more than 100,000 Americans.<\/p>\n<p>As one example, Trump listed the WHO advice against banning travel earlier this year, and criticism of his decision to halt incoming flights from China. Almost every country eventually stopped air travel, in addition to Chinese-style lockdown tactics intended to slow the spread of the respiratory disease.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe world is now suffering as the result of malfeasance of the Chinese government,\u201d\u00a0Trump added.<\/p>\n<p>Trump had sent a letter to WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus two weeks ago, demanding that the agency\u00a0\u201cclean up its act\u201d\u00a0and giving it 30 days to do so. He accused the body of\u00a0\u201cinaccurate and misleading\u201d\u00a0statements about the coronavirus, and doing Beijing\u2019s bidding.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe only way forward for the World Health Organization is if it can actually demonstrate independence from China&#8230; we do not have time to waste,\u201d\u00a0he wrote.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/490183-us-terminating-relationship-who\/?fbclid=IwAR3NS_FgPPo-E3BEgeKkpDnZ6Sj-6U1NxA6-33fwQ7L_3WAejPEJkjbTaw4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/490183-us-terminating-relationship-who\/?fbclid=IwAR3NS_FgPPo-E3BEgeKkpDnZ6Sj-6U1NxA6-33fwQ7L_3WAejPEJkjbTaw4<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: Another great decision. WHO is in the hands of oligarchs instead of real scientists. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":283211,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}