Trump accused the WHO of being too 'China centric' on Tuesday, and suggested the organization had mishandled the COVID-19 outbreak.
World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus thanked multiple world leaders for their support on World Health Day, as the international community worked to contain the coronavirus pandemic.
Trump—who has been widely criticized for initially dismissing the threat of the novel coronavirus and failing to formulate a coherent federal response—said Tuesday that the WHO"really blew it." The president claims that the body was too slow to identify the threat of the outbreak in China, where government officials sought to hide the growing problem.
At a later press conference, he doubled down on the criticism."They called it wrong," Trump said of the WHO."They really—they missed the call. And we're going to put a hold on money spent to the WHO. We're going to put a very powerful hold on it and we're going to see." The president's main issue with the WHO appeared to be that it did not support his ban on some travel from China, introduced at the end of January. At the time, the WHO warned that such methods are usually not effective in containing pandemics, and that such a decision could divert attention and resources from more important efforts.
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