A World Health Organization official said a United States departure from the international body would be unimaginable
The World Health Organization and United States have been “connected since the very beginning,” and a U.S. departure from the international body would be unimaginable, a WHO official said Sunday.
“The United States, since at least 1902, has been the leader in global public health, and I cannot imagine an environment where the United States would not be in WHO and contributing to WHO as it does today,” Stewart Simonson, WHO’s assistant director-general of general management, said in an interview on CNN’s “Fareed Zakaria GPS.”“WHO was founded by the United States and other member states,” Simonson added.
In response to charges that the WHO sat on information coming out of China about coronavirus and did not act quickly enough, Simonson said: “Both assertions are wrong on their face.” “There is no conceivable reason WHO would sit on information. No interest of ours is served by doing so,” he said. “Our interest is in sounding the alarm when the evidence is indicating the alarm should be sounded and that is exactly what Dr. Tedros did.”
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has said the agency is looking into the contents of Trump's letter. Simonson acknowledged he wouldn’t make conclusions on China’s transparency until an independent review by the World Health Organization occurs.
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