US weighs $2B-a-year plan to duplicate WHO’s health surveillance
TL;DR
After leaving the WHO, the Trump administration is weighing a domestic, $2 billion-a-year plan to recreate the global disease surveillance and outbreak-response functions the U.S. formerly accessed through the WHO, arguing it would be cheaper and keep these capabilities under U.S. control.
Topics:top-newshealth#disease-outbreaks#health#infectious-diseases#public-health#us-department-of-health-and-human-services#world-health-organization
- After leaving WHO, Trump officials propose more expensive replacement to duplicate it The Washington Post
- Trump has pulled the US out of the World Health Organization – here’s why that’s sheer hypocrisy | Devi Sridhar The Guardian
- Trump ditched the World Health Organization. His new plan will cost three times as much, report says The Independent
- Dr. Richard Feldman: Isolation and infectious disease dailyjournal.net
- Exclusive: After pulling out of WHO, the Trump administration is proposing spending $2 billion a year to replicate the global disease surveillance and outbreak functions the United States once helped build, which will cost about three times as much. Facebook
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