The White House Suspends Its Contributions to WHO and Wrote a Letter to Them on COVID-19

On May 18th, 2020, the White House, through the President, President Donald Trump wrote the World Health Organization (WHO). In the letter, President Trump accused WHO of being aware of the case of COVID-19 that emanated from Wuhan in China before or in December 2019, but because of political reasons hide it from the rest of the world until it gets out of hand. Trump has also suspended temporarily the United States contributions to the World Health Organization and has threatened to make it permanent if the WHO failed to meet certain demands he listed as a result of their failure to properly investigate the case of COVID-19 when the information was made known to them.

According to the letter:

On April 14, 2020, I suspended the United States' contributions to the World Health Organization pending an investigation by my Administration of the organization's failed response to the COVID-19 outbreak. This review has confirmed many of the serious concerns I raised last month and identified others that the World Health Organization should have addressed especially the World Health Organization's alarming lack of Independence from the people's Republic of China. Based on this review, we now know the following:

• The World Health Organization 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 World Health Organization failed to independently investigate credible reports that conflicted directly with the Chinese government's official accounts, even those that came from sources within Wuhan itself.

• By no later than December 26 and 30, China's media highlighted evidence of a virus emerging from Wuhan, based on patient data sent to multiple Chinese genomics companies. Additionally, during this period, Dr. Zhang, Jixian, a doctor from Hubei Provincial Hospital of Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine, told China's health authorities that a new coronavirus was causing a novel disease that was, at the time, off licking approximately 180 patients.

• By the next day; Taiwanese authorities had communicated information to the World Health Organization indicating human-to-human transmission of a new virus. Yet the World Health Organization chose not to share any of this critical information with the rest of the world, probably for political reasons.

Read President Donald Trump full letter to the World Health Organization below

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Nwoko Solomon Ikechukwu