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The World Health Organization (WHO) is a UN agency that is concerned with world public health.
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Has the WHO investigated the origin of COVID-19 outside of China?
Has the WHO investigated the origin of COVID-19 outside of China? Is there a procedure that the WHO uses when it needs to investigate the origin of a virus, and what has the WHO done to get some ...
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Who were the 12 countries that voted against condemning Russia at the World Health Assembly yesterday?
The World Health Assembly yesterday gathered to vote on a resolution to condemn Russia's aggression in Ukraine and also how to best respond to the health crisis there too.
There were 53 abstentions ...
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Why won't China allow an independent investigation on the origin of COVID-19? [closed]
Why won't China allow an independent investigation on the origin of COVID-19?
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-statement/u-s-13-countries-concerned-who-covid-19-origin-study-...
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What is preventing UN from playing a more assertive role atleast in Global Pandamic situation?
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the UN member nation's response was more or less defined by the country leaders' personality. WHO guidelines were generally followed and acted upon. However, few ...
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What is the Biden administration's position on the WHO investigation into the origins of coronavirus?
Has the Biden administration expressed support of the World Health Organization investigating the origins of COVID-19 in China?
The Wikipedia article on the WHO investigations only mentions the views ...
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Are any nations in discussions with China to prevent any further dangerous viruses from becoming pandemic? [closed]
Has the US (or any western government) made any representations to China concerning responsibility regarding Covid-19?
And is anyone in discussions with China, or any other country, as to how to ...
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What benefit does the USA gain when it withdraws from WHO?
According to the Financial Times, Donald Trump has threatened to quit the World Health Organization (WHO).
Donald Trump has threatened to withdraw from the World Health
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On what kind of schedule does the US make payments to the WHO?
I've been wondering whether Trump's cutting of funds to the WHO has had any practical effect on the WHO's budget so far. Basically, how often does the US disburse funds to the WHO? Is it annually, ...
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Where does Trump's authority to cut funding to WHO come from, if Congress controls spending?
I always thought that Congress controlled US government spending; the so called "power of the purse". However, on April 14th, Trump gave a press conference during which he signalled that he would ...
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How did the US "sabotage" the adoption of the latest World Health Assembly resolution regarding Covid-19?
The Intercept claims that:
Last month, Australia led the way in calling for such an investigation, suggesting that it would raise the issue at the World Health Assembly, the decision-making body of ...
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Has the WHO or any individual countries released COVID-19 statistics divided on basis of sex?
In February 2019, the U.S.A released HIV statistics based on sex:
Have the WHO or any individual countries released COVID-19 statistics divided on this basis?
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Could the CCP have disclosed the COVID-19 pandemic much earlier as the U.S. claims? [closed]
Could the CCP have disclosed the COVID-19 pandemic much earlier as the U.S. claims? What are the standards in terms of pandemic reporting and did the Chinese Communist Party meet those standards? What ...
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Why does WHO have a constitution?
So, while doing some research on on the World Health Organization (WHO), I noticed it had a constitution.
I found this weird, because I always had associated the word "Constitution" with countries, ...
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What expert advice was behind WHO’s endorsement of live animal markets in China? [closed]
According to Australia’s SBS news article Morrison chides WHO as wet markets reopen in China's coronavirus epicentre, the WHO has endorsed live animal markets re-opening in China. If the PM of ...
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What is the difference between the CDC and the WHO as it pertains to the USA?
With regards to President Trump's defunding of the WHO, here's my question to get a bit more context: With respect to the stated objectives with regards to US national interests, what is the ...
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Have any polls been conducted measuring support for the WHO?
In the past few weeks, we have seen some countries criticize the World Health Organization, particularly from Japan, and more recently the US President's withdrawal of WHO funding subject to a review.
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What explains the large year-to-year variation in US voluntary contributions to the WHO?
The US is usually the largest contributor to the WHO's budget (with some odd year exception when the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation gave a bit more than the US government.)
But nonetheless, there ...
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What's the earliest date on public record when the WHO requested to visit Wuhan to investigate COVID-19?
In the context of Trump's administration decision to suspend the funding of the WHO (pending a review), the BBC has this narrative:
"Had the WHO done its job to get medical experts into China to ...
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What program(s) is the US DoD funding through the WHO just in South Korea?
A lot of the voluntary contributions that the WHO receives are "earmarked" for a specific purpose (by the donor), specification which sometimes include a certain country in which the money is to be ...
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Why is the United States voluntarily funding the World Health Organization 60 times more than China?
I read on https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-14/trump-says-he-s-halting-payments-to-who-for-data-sharing-failure:
The U.S. has contributed about $893 million to the WHO’s operations ...
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When did the WHO decide there was evidence of human-to-human transmission of Covid-19?
A January 14 WHO tweet that has been widely re-broadcast months later by the right-wing US press (e.g. NYPost, WashExam but not exclusively by them, e.g. Bloomberg opinion piece, Politico o.p.) said ...
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What was WHO's defence from US Republican attacks that the WHO "really blew" their response to the pandemic by being "slow" and "deceptive"?
As reported on the BBC today:
The [US] president accused the WHO of being "very China-centric" and said they "really blew" their pandemic response.
Dr Tedros has now dismissed the ...
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Has the WHO said anything about travel restrictions since the end of February?
The WHO was against travel restrictions as they detailed in a press release at the end of February. But in the month past (March) practically every country on earth has instituted travel restrictions, ...
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Why was the World Health Organization against travel restrictions following the COVID-19 outbreak?
At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Health Organization initially opposed countries instituting travel or trade restrictions. Example tweet, NPR article mentioning WHO's advice.
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Does the World Health Organization have the power to impose sanctions?
In the last couple of days, WHO officials have criticised the UK government's approach to the COVID-19 pandemic, describing the government's reliance on developing herd-immunity amongst the British ...
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Is a WHO PHEIC declaration per-area/per-country or is it always of global effect?
Wikipedia lets us know that:
A Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) is a formal declaration by the World Health Organization (WHO) of "an extraordinary event which is ...
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What is the significance of the WHO characterising Covid-19 as a pandemic?
According to Reuters news agency, the Director General of the World Health Organisation (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a news conference today (March 11th) that:
We are deeply concerned ...
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Has there been a random survey of a population for COVID-19?
Has the World Health Organisation (WHO) or any government anywhere conducted random tests for COVID-19?
It is announced today that in Britain they are going to step up the testing from 1,500 people ...
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