STAT January 18, 2025
Many of the World Health Organization’s problems come down to its own mission confusion
The likely next secretary of state, Sen. Marco Rubio, once said of the World Health Organization: “The WHO is a corrupt, radical institution that was powerless to stop Covid-19 spreading beyond China.” That was in 2022. In 2020, at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, then-President Trump pulled U.S. funding and membership from the WHO, also slinging accusations of pandemic mismanagement. Now, it’s likely he’ll again...