Bill Gates: 'Halting funding for the World Health Organization during a world health crisis is as dangerous as it sounds...The world needs WHO now more than ever.'
Hospitals are overwhelmed and sending some of the sick to facilities outside of the county, the Post said.
A view of empty TSA control checkpoint at Washington National Airport on April 11, 2020, in Arlington, Va. Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian speaks at the daily media briefing in Beijing on April 8, 2020.Furthermore, the move"weakens the WHO's capabilities and harms international cooperation," he said.
Team Sky Procycling leads the peloton on the climb of the Col d'Aubisque as they defend the race leader's yellow jersey for Bradley Wiggins of Great Britain, during stage 16 of the 2012 Tour de France from Pau to Bagneres-de-Luchon, on July 18, 2012, in Gourette, France. The 2020 Tour de France has been postponed till the end of August due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, warned Wednesday that Americans should be prepared for a second wave of novel coronavirus infections in the winter, even as the epidemic appears to have hit its peak in parts of the country. Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention appears on "Good Morning America," April 15, 2020.It's important the country takes the time now to improve its testing capacity and expand public health capacity so that health workers can detect cases early, conduct contact tracing and isolate potentially infected individuals, according to Redfield.
"It's really a testament to the sacrifice the American public has taken and the leadership that we've had in a number of these states to give that example," he added. When asked about President Donald Trump's decision to halt U.S. funding to the World Health Organization and whether he thinks the agency failed in its outbreak response, Redfield was reluctant to criticize the WHO and instead said,"I think I'd like to do the postmortem on this outbreak once we get through it together."
A food delivery courier cycles along pedestrian Arbat street as municipal vehicles clean and disinfect the area, with a building decorated with a mural depicting a Soviet Marshal Georgy Zhukov seen in the background, in downtown Moscow, Russia, on April 14, 2020. Russia has been seeing an increase in coronavirus infections despite a series of confinement measures, prompting President Vladimir Putin to warn of "extraordinary" scenarios.
The president claimed the WHO mismanaged the outbreak response and specifically laid blame on the organization's lack of support for his ban on travel from China when the outbreak began.In this file photo taken on Feb. 24, 2020, the logo of the World Health Organization is seen at its headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.
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