Donald Trump speaking at a campaign rally in Arizona in 2016, prior to being elected president. By Kai Kupferschmidt, Jon CohenScience’s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center.President Donald Trump said today he will suspend U.S.
funding to the World Health Organization (WHO) pending a 60- to 90-day investigation into how the agency has handled the response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.
Trump accused WHO of “severely mismanaging and covering up the spread of the coronavirus,” at a White House press conference in the Rose Garden this evening, adding “everybody knows what’s going on there.” People involved in the pandemic response around the world reacted with horror to the news. “This is a