周一晚上，唐纳德·特朗普总统签署了一项行政命令美国退出世界卫生组织一些公共卫生专家表示，此举将使美国处于非常不利的地位。
在……里命令特朗普指责世卫组织对新冠肺炎疫情“处理不当”，没有采取“迫切需要的改革”，并受到其他成员国的政治影响。
总统还表示，撤军是为了“被敲竹杠”。
特朗普让美国退出世界卫生组织，完成了他开始的事情
周一晚上，当一名记者问及特朗普在新冠肺炎疫情期间领导美国的经历以及世卫组织在全球应对流行病方面的重要性时，特朗普说，“每个人都在欺骗美国，就是这样——这不会再发生了。”。
该行政命令的文本描述了一种“不公平”的要求，即“美国支付繁重的款项，与其他国家分摊的款项远远不成比例”。"
“拥有14亿人口的中国，人口是美国的300%，但对世卫组织的贡献却少了近90%，”行政命令写道。
特朗普的行政命令试图完成他在第一任期最后几个月开始的进程。总统暂时削减了资金，并于2020年7月签署了一项行政命令，将美国从世卫组织撤出，但因为撤军需要一个一年通知前总统乔·拜登在2021年1月上任后撤销了这一决定。
公共卫生专家在接受美国广播公司采访时说，他们担心从世卫组织撤军会使美国在应对国内外健康危机时处于不利地位。
“美国从世卫组织撤军真是令人失望的消息。亚特兰大埃默里大学罗林斯公共卫生学院院长丹尼尔·弗林博士对美国广播公司新闻说:“从很多方面来说，这是一个战略性错误。
“不成为世卫组织的一部分，不仅意味着我们威胁到美国人和全球人类同胞的健康，还意味着我们失去了作为全球健康领导者的地位，我对此非常担忧，”她补充说。
以下是专家们所说的美国离开世卫组织的影响:
美国可能会错过疾病的早期预警信号
专家说，将美国从世卫组织撤出可能会阻碍解决当前公共卫生问题的努力，如禽流感。
据报道，自2024年4月以来，全国各地已确诊人类病例，截至周一，已确诊67例疾病控制和预防中心.
疾控中心和其他公共卫生官员表示，目前没有证据表明人与人之间的传播，对公众的风险很低。然而，联邦卫生官员已经准备了数百万瓶可用的禽流感疫苗作为预防措施，以备不时之需。
去年，世卫组织宣布已经发起一项倡议利用信使核糖核酸(mRNA)技术帮助加速人类禽流感疫苗的开发。
专家说，不再是世卫组织的一部分可能意味着失去在疾病预防和应对方面的合作能力，以及就公共卫生面临的新威胁交换信息的能力。
美国还为世卫组织的工作做出了重大贡献，包括与疾病预防控制中心和国家卫生研究院在癌症预防和全球卫生安全等问题上的合作。
“我认为世卫组织是一个世界各国的网络，当健康问题出现时，无论是进入美国的健康问题，还是走出美国的健康问题，都会相互通报和保护，”新泽西罗格斯大学公共卫生学院院长佩里·哈尔基蒂斯博士告诉美国广播公司新闻。“因此，这对人们不利，对美国也不利，(他们需要)获得相关、及时、重要的信息。”
美国可以在应对全球健康危机中发挥更小的作用
世卫组织总干事Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus博士在声明周二凌晨，听到这一消息表示“遗憾”。
“70多年来，世卫组织和美国拯救了无数生命，保护美国人和所有人免受健康威胁，”他的声明中写道。“我们一起消灭了天花，我们一起将脊髓灰质炎带到了根除的边缘。美国机构为世卫组织的会员资格做出了贡献，并从中受益。”
公共卫生专家表示，在这些举措正在实施的时候(在某些情况下，这些举措仍在实施)，如果不成为世卫组织的一部分，将不利于在国内外取得进展。
智库外交关系委员会(Council on Foreign Relations)全球卫生项目主任托马斯·博莱基(Thomas Bollyky)称，将美国从世卫组织撤出的行政命令是“一个巨大的错误”
他说，他很担心，因为与此同时，特朗普签署了另一项行政命令暂停所有对外援助支出90天.
“许多美国全球卫生项目资助正在进行的疟疾或艾滋病毒/艾滋病个人治疗，”他告诉美国广播公司新闻。“90天的暂停可能会对这些项目的运作产生重大影响，目前还不完全确定在此期间将进行的战略审查将如何影响全球卫生项目的发展。”
“世卫组织并不是一个完美的机构，但它在全球疫情应对中发挥着不可替代的作用，通过撤回这一行动，降低了美国积极影响疫情应对的能力。这让美国人更不安全，”波利基补充道。
被川普任命为新成立的政府效率部(DOGE)负责人的特斯拉首席执行官兼科技亿万富翁埃隆·马斯克回应了世卫组织在X带着吻脸的表情符号星期二早上。
Public health experts worry about implications of Trump withdrawing US from WHO: 'An enormous mistake'
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday eveningwithdrawing the United States from the World Health Organization, a move some public health experts say will put the nation at a major disadvantage.
In theorder, Trump accused the WHO of "mishandling" the COVID-19 pandemic, not adopting "urgently needed reforms" and being politically influenced by other member states.
The president also said the withdrawal was about "being ripped off."
Trump withdraws US from World Health Organization, finishing what he started
"Everybody rips off the United States and that's it -- it's not going to happen anymore," Trump said Monday night when asked by a reporter about his experience leading the country during the COVID-19 pandemic and the importance of the WHO to mount a global response to pandemics.
The text of the executive order describes an "unfair" demand of "onerous payments from the United States, far out of proportion with other countries' assessed payments."
"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," the executive order reads.
Trump's executive order is an attempt to finish a process he began during the last months of his first term. The president temporarily slashed funding and signed an executive order in July 2020 removing the U.S. from the WHO but, because withdrawal requires aone-year notice, former President Joe Biden reversed the decision upon taking office in January 2021.
Public health experts who spoke to ABC News said they worry the withdrawal from the WHO will put the U.S. at a disadvantage when it comes to responding to health crises at home and abroad.
"The U.S. withdrawal from the WHO is really disappointing news. It's a strategic mistake in so many ways for us as a country," Dr. Daniele Fallin, dean of the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University in Atlanta, told ABC News.
"Not being part of the WHO means not only do we threaten the health of Americans and our fellow humans across the globe, but we also lose our stature as a leader in global health, and I'm very concerned about that," she added.
Here's what experts said would be the implications of the U.S. leaving the WHO:
U.S. could miss early warning signs of disease
Removing the U.S. from the WHO could hamper efforts to address current public health issues, such as bird flu, the experts said.
Human cases have been diagnosed across the country since April 2024, with 67 confirmed as of Monday, according to theCenters for Disease Control and Prevention.
The CDC and other public health officials say there is currently no evidence of human-to-human transmission and the risk to the general public is low. However, federal health officials have prepared millions of vials of an available bird flu vaccine as a precautionary measure, in case it becomes necessary.
Last year, the WHO announced it hadlaunched an initiativeto help accelerate the development of a human bird flu vaccine using messenger RNA (mRNA) technology.
No longer being part of the WHO could mean losing the ability to collaborate on disease preparedness and response, as well as the ability to exchange information about emerging threats to public health, the experts said.
The U.S. also majorly contributes to the WHO's work, including collaborations with the CDC and the National Institutes of Health on issues including cancer prevention and global health security.
"I think about the WHO as a network of countries around the world that inform and protect each other when health issues are emerging, whether they're health issues entering into the United States, or whether the health issue is going outside the United States," Dr. Perry Halkitis, dean of the Rutgers School of Public Health in New Jersey, told ABC News. "And so, it is disadvantageous for people, and is disadvantageous for the United States, [who need] access to relevant, timely, important information."
U.S. could play lesser role in responding to global health crises
WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus responded to the withdrawal announcement in astatementearly Tuesday morning, expressing "regret" to hear the news.
"For over seven decades, WHO and the USA have saved countless lives and protected Americans and all people from health threats," his statement read, in part. "Together, we ended smallpox, and together we have brought polio to the brink of eradication. American institutions have contributed to and benefited from membership in WHO."
Public health experts said not being part of the WHO when those initiatives were being conducted -- and, in some cases, are still being conducted -- would have been detrimental to making progress at home and abroad.
Thomas Bollyky, director of the global health program at the think tank Council on Foreign Relations, described the executive order removing the U.S. from the WHO as "an enormous mistake."
He said he's worried because it comes at the same time as another executive order Trump signed putting a90-day pause on all foreign aid spending.
"Many U.S. global health programs fund the ongoing treatment of individuals for malaria or for HIV/AIDS," he told ABC News. "A 90-day pause could be significantly disruptive to the operation of those programs, and it is not entirely certain how the strategy review that will occur during that time will affect global health programs moving forward."
"The WHO is not a perfect institution, but it plays an irreplaceable role in global outbreak response and, by withdrawing this action, reduces the ability of the United States to positively influence that response to outbreak. It makes Americans less safe," Bollyky added.
Tesla CEO and tech billionaire Elon Musk, whom Trump tapped to head the newly formed Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), responded to the WHO's statement on Xwith a kiss-face emojion Tuesday morning.
