It was on January 30, 2020, that WHO declared Covid-19 a global public health emergency. The novel coronavirus would end up killing nearly seven million people. Five years on, and with Donald Trump back in the White House,
Ex-CNN editor Chris Cilizza conceded on Monday that he "screwed up" in his assessment of the lab leak theory, suggesting that President Trump was likely right about COVID's origins.
The CIA says both a natural origin and a lab leak "remain plausible" as potential sources of covid-19, following a review of the pandemic's origins.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order that would begin the process of removing the U.S. from the World Health Organization. Here's why.
The Central Intelligence Agency has shifted its official stance on the origin of Covid-19, saying Saturday that the virus was "more likely" leaked from a Chinese lab than transmitted by animals.
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.
Ooh, that’s a big one,” Donald Trump said Monday as he signed an executive order – one of dozens during his first hours as president – to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization.
Amid a series of executive orders, President Donald Trump is preparing to temporarily halt funding for gain of function research.
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.
During Trump's first term, little attention was paid to how globalism diverted health resources to far-off countries that are not even necessarily allies. Then COVID -19 shined a bright light on American public health inadequacies. Currently the CDC has over 1,600 employees working on the payroll in 60 countries.
Trump's new orders also include mandates for how the U.S. government recognizes gender on federal documents and change official names of Mount Denali in Alaska and the Gulf of Mexico. And they could grant the second Trump administration expansive authority to enforce border security and immigration laws.
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.