Oh No: The World Health Org Is Scrambling to Stay Afloat Following Trump Cuts

The World Health Organization is reportedly scrambling to stay afloat following U.S. funding cuts, admitting it may “never recover the capacity needed to respond effectively to future pandemics” - as if they did a good job the last time. 

During the COVID pandemic WHO was criticized for being slow to declare the pandemic as such, initially downplaying its severity, having weak leadership and coordination, and for being overreliant on China and being pressured by China to downplay the lab leak theory for the origin of the virus, which everyone now accepts. 

The U.S. is the biggest individual contributor to the WHO, followed by China, and the WHO announced plans to cut $400 million from its budget following Trump withdrawing from the WHO his first day in office. 

Now it looks even worse

According to Breitbart:

The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) began its annual nine-day meeting Monday. The elites gathered as the United Nations subsidiary began crying poor and publicly doubting its ability to ever again meet crises like the coronavirus epidemic after U.S. funding cuts struck at the heart of its finances.

Matthew Kavanagh, the director of Georgetown University’s center for Global Health Policy and Politics, said other countries have used the “U.S. disruption” — the cut in aid — “as cover to do their maneuvering, with many countries in Europe reducing aid.”

“The WHO faces an existential crisis that goes well beyond a budget gap to the question of whether this sort of multilateralism can succeed in addressing global health in this new era of nationalism and misinformation,” he said, the AP reported.

Tedros previously mourned the loss of U.S. funds and other assistance have left the W.H.O. with a salary gap of more than $500 million.

W.H.O. is “confident” it has commitments for 60 percent of funds for the next two-year budget cycle, but it faces a budget gap of a whopping $1.7 billion.