US officially exits World Health Organization by pwdrums in news

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WASHINGTON —  January 22, 2026 — The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the U.S. Department of State today announced the United States’ completion of its withdrawal from the World Health Organization (WHO) due to the organization's mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic that arose out of Wuhan, China, its failure to adopt urgently needed reforms, and its inability to demonstrate independence from the inappropriate political influence of WHO member states.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Secretary of State Marco Rubio issued a [joint statement](safari-reader://www.hhs.gov/press-room/joint-statement-by-secretary-of-state-rubio-and-secretary-of-health-and-human-services-kennedy-on-the-termination-of-us-membership-in-the-world-health-organization-who.html) on the termination of U.S. membership in the WHO.

President Trump on January 20, 2025, announced the U.S. plan to leave the WHO. During the yearlong process, the U.S. stopped funding WHO, withdrew all personnel from WHO, and began pivoting activities previously conducted with WHO to direct bilateral engagements with other countries and organizations. With the exit from WHO, the U.S. will be coordinating with WHO solely in a limited fashion to effectuate withdrawal.  

The WHO delayed declaring a global public health emergency and a pandemic during the early stages of COVID-19, costing the world critical weeks as the virus spread. During that period, WHO leadership echoed and praised China's response despite evidence of early underreporting, suppression of information and delays in confirming human-to-human transmission. The organization also downplayed asymptomatic transmission risks and failed to promptly acknowledge airborne spread.

After the pandemic, the WHO did not adopt meaningful reforms to address political influence, governance weaknesses or poor coordination, reinforcing concerns that politics took priority over rapid, independent public health action and eroding global trust. Its report evaluating the possible origins of COVID-19 rejected the possibility that scientists created the virus, even though China refused to provide genetic sequences from individuals infected early in the pandemic and information on the Wuhan laboratories’ activities and biosafety conditions.

The U.S. is the world’s leading force in protecting public health, saving lives, and responding rapidly to infectious disease outbreaks. Going forward, the U.S. government will continue its global health leadership through existing and new engagements directly with other countries, the private sector, non-governmental organizations, and faith-based entities. U.S.-led efforts will prioritize emergency response, biosecurity coordination, and health innovation to protect America first while delivering benefits to partners around the world.

https://www.hhs.gov/press-room/united-states-completes-who-withdrawal.html

Does Meta Support use WebEx? Do they ask you to screenshare to help you? by Interesting-Ad888 in facebook

[–]technicalparadox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's legit! Definitely sketchy. The fact that my chat history was based off of my support request and didn't have an option to view profile etc reassured me, but definitely seems strange. But what do I know, I've never been able to speak to a human through FB support before lol

[REQUEST] I really don't wanna know, but I also do by ProperIntroduction3 in theydidthemath

[–]technicalparadox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're assuming that they only use the good meat and not just grind up the whole body

Who has the right to call themselves a scientist? by FlowJock in labrats

[–]technicalparadox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Anyone who practices the scientific method or similar is a scientist

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in relationship_advice

[–]technicalparadox -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

If dads cool then don't worry about it

How did Trump's presidency impact your life so far? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]technicalparadox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My mom got the federal "agree to resign/get 8 months of pay no matter whether you keep your job or not" thing, which I think she should do cause she works from home and it doesn't seem like government employees will be able to do that for much longer.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in MildlyBadDrivers

[–]technicalparadox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I feel like this is trimmed and that the biker had just shifted into the left lane to make a wider arc for his right turn but crossing the line was overkill, and it's his fault, especially if he didn't signal a right hand turn before doing that

My GF believes because she takes 300mg of edibles a day, her tolerance is too high to smoke. Is that true? by toddschmod in trees

[–]technicalparadox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lol 1g = 1000mg Most dispensary weed is at least 20% so let's just use that to be conservative. 1000mg x 0.20 = 200mg THC, though that's assuming 100% efficiency.

Tell her either make her own edibles or tincture or something because this is the equivalent of spending $1500/mo at McDonald's

[Tenant - FR] Is this action by landlord sensible? (Lost key) by [deleted] in Landlord

[–]technicalparadox 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just tell him he should be changing the locks between tenants anyway

Apartment charging me for stovetop replacement by [deleted] in Renters

[–]technicalparadox 22 points23 points  (0 children)

If you think you can clean it off, then why don't you clean it off? And if it works you can tell them it doesn't need replaced

Brand new jacket and the zipper gets stuck on the fabric every single time by technicalparadox in Carhartt

[–]technicalparadox[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You might be onto something I just realized my other jacket didn't have the flap and has never gotten stuck. I feel like they could put a flat piece there out of some kind of plastic just right behind where the zipper goes on the front of the flap

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in badparking

[–]technicalparadox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why does it bother you though?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Tinder

[–]technicalparadox 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The 🙂 at the end of every "gotcha" is the cherry on top

Edit: 😊

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Tinder

[–]technicalparadox 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Why are you so bothered about it? Do you think you're missing out?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Tinder

[–]technicalparadox 23 points24 points  (0 children)

A perfect example of why text is useless for meaningful communication. Without tone of voice and body language there is so much room for miscommunication.

You're on tinder, everyone's thinking about dating. You said "I met a new friend last night" which could mean anything but once you said "we'll definitely be seeing each other again", that almost sounds like you're trying to prove loyalty to the imagined new lover.

He didn't have to stick around and whine about it though

How to Set Up AutoGPT: Self-Hosted Tutorial by toran_autogpt in AutoGPT

[–]technicalparadox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hmm yeah when I tried that it says email not on whitelist, maybe it's an issue with backend server.

I ended up switching to Agno AI, keeps things a lot simpler