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STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Jan 31 (IPS) - On his first day in office, President Donald Trump signed an executive order withdrawing the U.S. from the World Health Organization (WHO) – a move experts say makes the U.S. and other countries less safe from infectious diseases and other public-health threats. It might thus be opportune to return to the global COVID 19 pandemic. Has the threat really gone away? Can something similar not erupt again?

Read the full story, “The Road to and from Wuhan: Is Trump a Threat to Global Health?”, on globalissues.org