USA lämnar WHO

Donald Trumps besked att USA bryter med WHO är ”väldigt bekymrande”, säger biståndsminister Peter Eriksson (MP) i en intervju med TT.

Eriksson anser att WHO i och med coronapandemin behövs mer än någonsin men att organisationen nu riskerar att drabbas av avhopp från fler länder, något som skulle öka Kina och andra odemokratiska länders inflytande.

Biståndsministern tror också att Trumps beslut främst har med den amerikanska inrikespolitiken att göra.

The WHO initially discouraged the use of traditional remedies to treat COVID-19. For the first months of the outbreak, they were listed on the*agency’s website as “not effective against COVID-2019 and can be harmful”.

The guidance has since been updated and the warning removed. A WHO spokesperson, Tarik Jašarević, says the original statement “was too broad and did not take into account the fact that many people turn to traditional medicines to alleviate some of the milder symptoms of COVID-19”. Jašarević says the guidance stresses that there is no evidence that any current medicine — traditional or otherwise — can prevent or cure the disease, and that the WHO does not recommend self-medication with any substance as a prevention or cure for COVID-19.