President Joe Biden signed an executive order on his first day in office to bring the United States back into the World health Organization. U.S. public health expert Fauci said the Biden Administration‘s decision was the right one. However, critics say the WHO has caved in to political pressure from Beijing and bears unshirkable responsibility for the global spread of the Epidemic, and some in the United States have expressed concern that a global outbreak similar to the Chinese Communist virus could resurface.
One of the first things President Biden did after being sworn in on Jan. 20 was to sign a series of executive orders that repealed or suspended a series of executive orders signed by his predecessor, Donald Trump, during his presidency. Among them was a retraction of the U.S. decision to withdraw from the World Health Organization, an agency of the United Nations, on July 1 of this year. Fauci, chief medical adviser to President Biden, announced on July 21 that the United States will remain with the World Health Organization. He told the WHO Executive Board via video message that the United States would join the WHO program to provide vaccines, diagnostics and treatment to vulnerable populations around the world, and said the United States would fully resume its financial and personnel support to the WHO. The Trump Administration had announced plans to withdraw from the WHO.
Fauci: U.S. right decision to return to WHO
Biden also appointed Dr. Anthony Fauci, a world-renowned public health expert, as his chief medical adviser, and Fauci will lead the U.S. health delegation to the WHO’s executive council.
On Thursday (Jan. 21), Fauci, on behalf of the U.S. government, thanked WHO for its leadership in the global response to the Chinese Communist virus pandemic and praised WHO for “working tirelessly with countries in the fight against the Chinese Communist virus epidemic.
“In such difficult circumstances, WHO has brought together the global scientific and research and development community to accelerate the pace of vaccines, treatments and diagnostics,” Fauci told a meeting of the WHO Executive Council.
U.S. media say the Biden administration is clearly moving away from former President Trump’s line of rejecting international cooperation in the response to the Communist virus outbreak. Earlier last year, Trump harshly attacked the WHO and informed the United Nations that the U.S. would withdraw from the organization.
Dr. Amesh A. Adalja, a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins University Center for Health Security, told Voice of America that it is crucial for the United States to rejoin the WHO. It was the wrong decision to leave the WHO at that Time during the Communist virus pandemic.
However, Dr. Adalja also noted that it is equally important that the U.S. seek to understand what happened in the early days of the CCP virus outbreak, the role played by the WHO and the CCP, and the lack of transparency in certain aspects of the outbreak.
“Only by involving the United States fully in the operations of the WHO can we help ensure that its transparency becomes the norm,” he said.
Critics: “WHO” was “complicit” in Beijing’s early cover-up of the outbreak
U.S. activists have warned that the World Health Organization is not taking the leadership role it should in the Communist Party’s virus outbreak, but has instead bowed to pressure from Beijing to adopt a policy of appeasement toward the Communist government.
Dr. Yang Jianli, founder of the Washington-based NGO Citizen Power, told VOA that the Chinese government’s mismanagement and lax attitude toward controlling the epidemic in the early stages of the pandemic, and even its attempts to cover up the origins of the virus, disrupted the lives of people around the world, killing millions of people and causing trillions of dollars in economic losses.
“The World Health Organization has been complicit in Beijing’s role in the public health crisis that triggered the global pandemic of the Chinese Communist virus. This fact demonstrates that the WHO’s attitude of taking Beijing’s lead is costing global public health dearly,” he said.
Yang argued that at the beginning of the epidemic, the WHO urged member countries not to impose travel restrictions, which allowed the virus to spread rapidly and uncontrollably around the world. If Beijing had acted initially, it could have prevented more people from becoming infected.
U.S. Citizens Cry Fear as WHO Returns
How do the American people, who have been suffering from the impact of the Chinese Communist virus epidemic for a year, feel about the U.S. decision to return to the WHO? On Twitter, many American people expressed their views. Jane Miller said, “This is not a good idea, the anniversary of the Communist virus outbreak just passed, and the WHO said at the time that the virus would not be transmitted from person to person. It’s too bad that the WHO is so wrong about the epidemic, they’re being extremely politicized,” said Joe. Freedom First is concerned that a global outbreak like the Communist virus could happen again, saying, “All of this has happened before and it will happen again.”
Brett Schaefer, a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation, a Washington think tank, recently told the media that the WHO’s failures during the Communist virus epidemic cannot be allowed to repeat themselves. “Without major reforms at the WHO, the organization will once again lead to disastrous failures around the world, especially in those poor countries responding to future public health crises.”
The international regulatory affairs expert called on President Biden to demand a firm and public commitment from the rest of the world to support reform of the WHO. Among other things, the Health Emergency Program, which is at the heart of WHO’s pandemic response, must be independent and free from political pressure. In addition, WHO should reallocate resources to respond more effectively to the current CCP virus outbreak and any future pandemics.
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