Political ineptitude, public anxiety and the undermining of the WHO

Correspondence to Professor Ruth E Malone, Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA;ruth malone@ucsf edu In the midst of a global pandemic that has already caused the deaths of more than 350 000 people, US President Donald Trump recently announced he was ending the United States’ relationship with and funding for the World Health Organisation (WHO) 1 While pulling out of a United Nations global...