US declines to join global COVID-19 vaccine effort because of WHO's role

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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo argued why the U.S. is justified in declining to join global COVID-19 vaccine effort because of the World Health Organization's role.

Along with the vaccine alliance Gavi and the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, WHO is helping to coordinate the new vaccine effort, known as COVAX, and urging countries to join.A health worker in personal protective equipment uses a swab to collect a nasal sample from a person at a local health center to test for COVID-19 in New Delhi, India, on Aug. 31, 2020.

"This cannot be a race with a few winners, and the COVAX Facility is an important part of the solution -- making sure all countries can benefit from access to the world's largest portfolio of candidates and fair and equitable distribution of vaccine doses," said Stefan Löfven, Sweden's prime minister.

The charge that WHO is political and not science-based is not a new one from Pompeo, although critics say it is gratuitous at best. While WHO was slow to determine the novel coronavirus was contagious, it is limited in its ability to demand information from member states like China. Either way, its work on vaccines has been praised, including by Pompeo earlier this year.

 

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I miss the days of a free objective media.

Vendictiveness is this the service we need? Sad!!!!!!!

Typical of USA - think only of themselves - totally selfish😌

realDonaldTrump & SecPompeo are FOOLS. Dropping out of WHO is serious as globally we lag in recovery and an end to coronavirus. POTUS did away with NIH DrFauci DrBirx CDCDirector & is making US_FDA Political. Nation Beware. This rogue WhiteHouse is killing us & economy

Fortunately most countries are smarter than Donald Trump.

Vote Biden/Harris, our democracy is depending on it.

The US does not decline. realDonaldTrump declined.

I highly disapprove of vaccines inside of my beautiful body, I will not allow the gov to implant a ship spying on me.

I’m so embarrassed to be an American and so scared.

All because Trump had his feelings hurt

Remember when WHO told people not to wear masks 😷?

We are on a fast track to becoming a Third World nation. What a shameful disastrous fall from grace.

Politics aside, why would we not want Americans to have first dibs on a vaccine before getting it out to other countries? US is still funding vaccine research and contributing millions to help but I sorta agree here!

The “go it alone” strategy...I think that’s how we helped win World War I, WW II, and the Cold War...that “world leadership” thing was too much of a burden anyway...

Let’s VOTE THEM OUT!!

With or without trump government, life around the world still goes on. 😁

A lot of ignorant paranoid conspiracy theorists ignited by CNN disinformation against Trump in this thread.

Wankers

It’s obviously a global sham.

The WHO is corrupt.

Well, that’s all you can expect when the leader of said country is the most self-involved, selfish, childish, arrogant and ignorant person in their history. 🤷🏻‍♀️.

We just good forgiving WHO? /China? Just no further discussion?

So sad.

Incredibly shortsighted

Won't it be great when Joe Biden lets America rejoin our friends and allies in the world? Vote for Joe, and end the Trump Nightmare.

The decision undermines a corrupt organization under the control of the CCP

Pride strikes again

Thank you!!

Can't get this administration out fast enough!

And we should be neither surprised nor angered when no one comes to our aid.

Isolating yourselves from the fight, why?

America First

The WHO did such a fine job of warning about the wuhan virus, let's allow them to oversee a vaccine. Nope, nada, shouldn't happen.

Until that fake Dr Tedros leaves the organización, nobody will have confidence in that Chinese outfit called WHO

Its very telling. On so many levels.

Who trusts the who?🤔

FFS

2020 - VOTE.!! THE DAYS OF RECKONING. - the action or process of calculating.!! DEFEAT OF THE REPUBLI-CON PARTY.!! (VOTE.!!) THE ONLY WAY THE LIES, RACISM, FEAR AN HATE WILL END IS TO 'VOTE' IT OUT.!! END OF STORY.!!

Except that is not the reason for withdrawal. Same with Paris climate, Iran deal, and every other treaty or agreement that might keep us safer (' It's a disaster' ) same with health care protection for Americans..on and on.

Biden will have a lot of work to do fixing everything Trump has fucked up

Donald Trump. Making America paranoid again.

If we joined the global effort, guess which country would be paying 90% of the cost? Why do we have to consistently be the piggy bank of the world if the world don’t appreciate us? For not joining the “global” effort, we have a better control of where our money would go.

I hope the world forgives us, once we dump Trump.

WHO's on first How & Why can't understand WHAT the Hell is T. RUMP thinking or can he

Because America first, American pride, buy American, we're the best, right? Ultranationalism is a cornerstone of fascism, BTW. realDonaldTrump - You know, you can also be the best one on the team, too, everyone loves the best one on the team.

Trump just wants to be able to control vaccine efforts so he can gain political points and make money for himself

Good. There’s no one left to vaccinate that’s they now hide case ticker from us. More cases = more antibodies That’s how we arrived at 7 billion

As a Canadian I will never put a foot in your country anymore... And I'm hoping that all the countries will ask a visa for all the American citizens... Stay home and dont bother us anymore.

ABC decided not to report the Epstein story to police, they destroyed the story and all it's information related to the sexual molestation of underage girls.

America first policy

This is indecent. It is criminal. Dolt45 is an enemy of the human race. TrumpResignNow

You know what undermines the WHO? Their lying leader! He should have been fired! Why isn’t ABC holding him accountable? He allowed COVID to happen! On his watch!

No vaccine needed with therapeutics.

Trump, the dictator wanna be continues to make us a complete isolationist nation.

SecPompeo Because it’s what realDonaldTrump told you to say. GOP senatemajldr GOPLeader SpeakerPelosi

Already paid enough for the next 10 years

Bye felicia

Who’s roll?Pompeo’s fat rolls.

I’d like to know who’s lining up to take the covid19 vaccine once it’s approved ? I think they should go first and then we’ll see. Look how long it took to get a flu vaccine.

Dismantling international cooperation means inviting the Law of the Jungle. Welcome to egotism gone wild.

Playing politics with a global pandemic. Smart. TrumpVirus

Mike looks like he is going to explode throw in a salad now and again Mikey

Poor USA. Salutes and support from Latam.

The Who is a corrupt organization and has been to blame for lying to the world

RepublicansNeedToChooseTheCountryOverThePartyOftRump

Trump is betting the US will be the 1st to develop a vaccine and doesn't want to share it with any 'sh*t-hole' countries. And what stake is he betting with? Our lives.

mikepompeo, Secretary of Madness.

Lying traitor

The POV is patently stupid on its face. In this time, we should be maximizing chances the US is one of the winners of the vaccine race. We should be world leaders. Instead, we take a legitimate concern re: the WHO to take absolutely the wrong action at absolutely the wrong time.

Trump is protecting Big Pharma.

Good

West Point failure

He’s an idiot....the world is better with US leadership not isolated behind an incompetent, ignorant sociopath.

Barr implemented order preventing FBI investigations - The Russians with Barr are helping Trump as they did in 2016

Even if the US has a vaccine, it will not work. There are too many anti-intellectual people, represented by the occupant of the White House.

So we’re looking at years w/o kids in schools, jobs lost, homelessness, but who cares right? The TRUMP empire grows

Złóż życzenia.

F that traitor.

Did the WHO infect millions of Americans with covid? No... that was Pompeo and friends who did that. Someone ought to be suing the GOP for their failures.

He won't listen to WHO, instead he listens intently and does the bidding of a clown who said to drink bleach and windmills give cancer

Zero interest in lives & science

Good. With only 10k deaths in the usa out of 327 million people turns out this was nothing more than another attempt to steal an election.

Before US can show it is capable to develop a safe and effective vaccine, it is wise to put that decison later. Otherwize, if it provides a bad vaccine, the cost is too huge for the world to bear.

Excuses, excuses.

It'll be so nice when this misadministration is finally out of office.

withdrawing from who is another of trumps big blunders which Biden will set straight I'm sure.

Real face of Jewish, how they treat old Palestinian man because he’s defeating on his land

Anyone that claims that this administration is NOT killing Americans is full of shit.

Can't be because we have been doing such a great job on our own! We are an embarrassment!

Yeah nobody cares go eat a banana

Look at the Power of the Blood of Jesus

This clown has to GO. 🥾🤡🌊🇺🇸

It is idiotic for the United States not to be part of WHO's vaccine efforts.

You gotta be kidding me? SanchezFournier RubenDeJesus407

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