One of the top peer-reviewed medical journals in the world rebuked President Trump after the president incorrectly cited research it published on the COVID19 outbreak in a letter threatening to permanently yank U.S. funding to WHO
The Lancet, a leading British medical journal that has been critical of the president's ongoing WHO aid freeze, refuted Trump’s claim that the global health body “consistently ignored credible reports of the virus spreading in Wuhan in early December 2019 or even earlier, including reports from the Lancet medical journal.
The second report “included scientists and physicians from Hong Kong and mainland China,” the Lancet statement said. Trump's complaints culminated in Monday evening’s letter, which threatened the WHO with a permanent cutoff of U.S. aid unless the global health body agrees to "commit to major substantive improvements within the next 30 days." Trump also said the U.S. would "reconsider our membership in the organization."
But his sparring with a global health organization has drawn protests from critics who say it's unwise to push away an ally in the midst of an international public health crisis, and could end up backfiring on the U.S.
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