Huang Yanling was named as Patient Zero in early online reports shared widely throughout China in early 2020, when the magnitude of the deadly virus was first coming to light.

World Health Organization chief says agency already cutting back on hiring and travel with Trump withdrawal set to hit funding.

The U.S. has traditionally been the most generous benefactor of the WHO. A Trump executive order to cut ties with the WHO could pose a threat to global public health.

President Donald Trump has used one of the flurry of executive actions that he issued on his first day back in the White House to begin the process of withdrawing the U.S. from the World Health Organi

China, with a population of 1.4 billion, has 300 percent of the population of the United States, yet contributes nearly 90 percent less to the WHO,” said President Trump.

Public health experts say the United States’ departure could cripple the WHO’s operations or leave an opening for China to assume greater control over the agency.

President Trump signed an executive order​ on the first day of his second term, beginning the process of withdrawing the U.S. from the World Health Organization.

Staff at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have been told to halt all communication with the World Health Organization.

NEW YORK — President Donald Trump is pulling the U.S. out of the World Health Organization ... to the organization’s mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic that arose out of Wuhan, China ...

The first discoveries of people infected with the COVID-19 virus were in Wuhan. Five years after the initial lockdown was imposed, the Chinese city has not yet recovered from the crisis.

The ending of the commitment to the World Health Organization by the United States poses as an existential threat to the well-being of the international working class.