The coronavirus crisis shows we urgently need a stronger World Health Organization, not a weaker one, for all our sakes.
President Donald Trump has legitimate reasons to be angry the World Health Organization didn't stop the COVID-19 crisis. We all do.
Some people might think we already have a World Health Organization empowered to do whatever it takes to protect us in this way. But we don't. Imperfect as it is, the World Health Organization remains the international organization most essential to helping us through this crisis. Viruses do not respect national borders, and no country can expect to get through this crisis on its own. The virus will incubate wherever it is given free rein.
There are plenty of fingers to point, and we must thoughtfully point them now, at all of us, for our own good. For all we know, a new and even worse pandemic could begin even before we have overcome this one. The United States had all the information it needed by January to mount a massive response, but Trump actively undermined the findings of his own intelligence and health officials. Worse, he passed misinformation to the American people that potentially led to many thousands of deaths. We've got to ask why this happened.
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