The virus-fighting agency Trump gutted (it's not the WHO)
Donald Trump may be threatening to defund the World Health Organization, the United Nations agency he accuses of “severely mismanaging” the coronavirus epidemic.
But diplomats and public health experts at the WHO and elsewhere say the U.S. president has already gutted the agency that has traditionally taken the lead in battling global pandemics: the U.S. Centers for Disease Prevention and Control.
The CDC is the world’s pre-eminent disease-fighting body. Its staff of more than 20,000 people is mostly based in Atlanta, but they’re also spread around the U.S. and dozens of countries.
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The CDC has become a “nonentity” in the coronavirus fight, said Ilona Kickbusch, a WHO adviser and founder of the Global Health Centre at the Graduate Institute of Geneva.
“It was a highly professional, trusted organization, and they’re gone basically,” she added. “It’s a tragedy for global health.”
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