U.S. Formally Withdraws From World Health Organization

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https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/us/politics/united-states-withdraws-world-health-organization.html

https://archive.ph/Ploxt

U.S. Formally Withdraws From World Health Organization
Global health experts worry that a lack of international coordination will lead to death and disaster.
By Sheryl Gay Stolberg
Jan. 22, 2026 Updated 9:25 p.m. ET

The United States formally withdrew from the World Health Organization on Thursday, making good on an executive order that President Trump issued on his first day in office pledging to leave the international organization that coordinates global responses to public health threats.

As a W.H.O. member, the United States long sent scientists from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to participate in international decision-making about which strains to include in the flu vaccine. A W.H.O. meeting on next year’s vaccine is scheduled for February. The official said the Trump administration would soon disclose how or whether it will participate.

On Thursday, the administration said that all U.S. government funding to the organization had been terminated, and that all assigned federal employees and contractors had been recalled from its Geneva headquarters and its offices worldwide.

Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, a former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, called the move “a grave error” on social media, adding, “Health threats do not respect borders, and weakening global cooperation makes Americans less safe.”

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[Deuxcents]

1. Insane. I think our scientists and health officials will find a way to continue their research and work

And it may not be here until this moron is gone and they are able to continue here

[Johonny]

2. What could go right doing this?

I mean, only bad things are going to result. There is simply no benefit to this move. No upside. There is no way to sell this to anyone not a complete moron that this move is a good move.

[Blues Heron]

3. Putin loves this

[OAITW r.2.0]

4. This will save American lives. What a fucking criminal moron.

[no_hypocrisy]

5. First, it was the Paris Climate Treaty

Then it was World Health Organization

Waiting for Trump to leave the United Nations and kick the organization out of New York.