Criticized for Pandemic Response, Trump Tries Shifting Blame to the W.H.O.


By BY MICHAEL D. SHEAR
U.S.
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The president said he would halt funding for the organization because it caused “so much death” in the way it “pushed Chinese misinformation,” though he himself effusively praised China’s handling of the virus.
New York Times
Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), United States Politics and Government, Epidemics, Quarantines
April 14, 2020 at 11:41PM

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