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February 7, 2023

WHO

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Protesters slam choice of Syria for board of UN health body

June 2, 2021 Bassem Mroue, Associated Press

BEIRUT — Dozens of medical workers in rebel-held northwest Syria on Monday protested a decision to grant President Bashar Assad’s government a seat on the executive board of the World Health Organization. They said Assad […]

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SHAPIRO: China isn’t winning. The West Is forfeiting

May 27, 2021 Ben Shapiro

This week, The Wall Street Journal reported that three researchers from the Chinese Wuhan Institute of Virology were hospitalized in November 2019 with “symptoms consistent with both Covid-19 and common seasonal illness.” That report followed […]

Article

World leaders call for pandemic treaty, but short on details

March 31, 2021 Maria Cheng, The Associated Press

LONDON — In a commentary published Tuesday, more than 20 heads of government and global agencies called for an international treaty for pandemic preparedness that they say will protect future generations in the wake of […]

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WHO report says animals likely source of COVID

March 29, 2021 The Associated Press

BEIJING — A joint WHO-China study on the origins of COVID-19 says that transmission of the virus from bats to humans through another animal is the most likely scenario and that a lab leak is […]

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WHO: 10% of world’s people may have been infected with virus

October 5, 2020 Jamey Keaten, Associated Press

GENEVA — The head of emergencies at the World Health Organization said Monday the agency’s “best estimates” indicate roughly 1 in 10 people worldwide may have been infected by the coronavirus — more than 20 […]

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Scientists urge WHO to acknowledge virus can spread in air

July 6, 2020 The Associated Press

LONDON — More than 200 scientists have called for the World Health Organization and others to acknowledge that the coronavirus can spread in the air — a change that could alter some of the current […]

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US cuts WHO ties over virus, takes action against Hong Kong law

May 29, 2020 Ben Fox, Associated Press

WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump said Friday the U.S. will terminate its relationship with the World Health Organization over its handling of the coronavirus outbreak in China and will begin the process of withdrawing […]

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WHO bows to calls from countries for independent virus probe

May 19, 2020 Jamey Keaten, Associated Press

GENEVA — The World Health Organization bowed to calls Monday from most of its member states to launch an independent probe into how it managed the international response to the coronavirus, which has been clouded […]

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MILLER: Sweet are the uses 

May 6, 2020 Nan MIller

If you’re a Shakespeare fan, you might know what a character in “As You Like It” said about facing adversity. When Duke Senior loses his dukedom to a usurping brother and is banished to the […]

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US stops funding World Health Organization as Trump admin conducts coronavirus review

April 14, 2020 North State Journal Staff

WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that the U.S. would halt funding for the World Health Organization while it assesses the group’s “role in severly mismanaging” the outbreak of coronavirus. “Today I’m instructing […]

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