W.H.O. is to blame?

Worldly

Vox Media Podcast Network

News, Politics, News Commentary

4.4 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Zack, Jenn, and Alex talk about Trump’s plan to freeze US funding for the World Health Organization (WHO), ostensibly in retaliation for its failures in the early days of the coronavirus outbreak. The team discusses the very real problems with the organization’s response and why cutting global health funding during a pandemic is both dangerous and geopolitically shortsighted. References: Vox has a story explaining how Trump’s poor coronavirus response isn’t the WHO’s fault. Here’s that disastrous WHO tweet Zack cited. Vox also has a piece on how China obfuscated early information on the coronavirus outbreak. Time has a story on what critics are saying about Trump’s WHO decision. In February, the Council on Foreign Relations had a blog post on the WHO’s missteps. The New York Times explains why Trump’s WHO play is just a way to shift blame. Here’s the clip of the WHO official hanging up on a reporter after questions about Taiwan. Vox’s explainer on the coronavirus has a lot of important information about the pandemic. Hosts: Zack Beauchamp (@zackbeauchamp), senior correspondent, Vox Jennifer Williams (@jenn_ruth), senior foreign editor, Vox Alex Ward (@AlexWardVox), national security reporter, Vox Consider contributing to Vox: Your financial contribution will make vital explanatory journalism possible at a time when clear, concise information is needed more than ever. Thank you for supporting Vox. More to explore: Subscribe for free to Today, Explained, Vox’s daily news podcast to help you understand the news, hosted by Sean Rameswaram. About Vox: Vox is a news network that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines. Follow Us: Vox.com Newsletter: Vox Sentences Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	In December 2020, a Latino couple was falsely accused by a white momfluencer of attempting to kidnap her children.
0:07.0	The Karen phenomenon where white women falsely accuse people of color of crimes usually fixates on the
0:13.5	accuser the so-called Karen. But for this series we focus on the
0:17.2	innocent couple at the heart of this story. I just want the public to know
0:21.9	what she did was wrong.
0:24.0	In Perfect Paradise People versus Karen.
0:26.3	Available now wherever you get your podcasts. We are in the middle of the worst health emergency globally since 1918 and the U is cutting off its funding to the most
0:45.9	important international health organization, the World Health Organization or WHO.
0:51.6	Why is that happening? What possible reasoning could the United States be using and
0:55.6	did the WHO really screw up its early pandemic response as the US is claiming?
1:02.0	That's what we're going to talk about today on worldly part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.
1:06.7	I'm Zach Be Chim here as always with Jen Williams and Alex Ward.
1:09.3	Hi. What's going on? Well, I'm in my home office sitting here with my dog who usually
1:16.6	winds part way through the episode. One of the two, the other one sits downstairs comfortably
1:20.1	with my wife. To be fair, Alex also wines usually halfway through the episode.
1:23.6	Well, yes, I mean, we could call the episode Alex Wining.
1:27.1	I'm just kidding. I just made that up.
1:28.6	No, instead we're going to talk about something, which, you know know seems kind of
1:33.1	of befuddling and difficult to wrap one's head around which is the
1:37.0	Trump administration's decision to cut off entirely funding for the
1:42.2	World Health Organization the US is the entirely funding for the world health organization.
1:43.3	The US is the WHO's or the WHO's,
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