Forbes January 26, 2025
Arthur L. Kellermann

The first week of President Donald Trump’s second term dealt several body blows to public health. Among a flurry of executive orders signed on his first day in office is one that withdraws the U.S. from the World Health Organization (WHO)—a move experts say will make the U.S. and other countries around the world less safe from infectious diseases and other threats to health, according to Time.

Another executive order signed that day is aimed at “restoring freedom of speech and ending federal censorship” of US citizens. It alleges, in part, that “Under the guise of combatting ‘misinformation,’ ‘disinformation,’ and ‘malinformation,’ the Federal Government infringed on the constitutionally protected speech rights of American citizens across the United States in a...

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