As the 78th World Health Assembly was taking place on Tuesday in Geneva, of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. gave a formal statement calling on nations around the world to break from the World Health Organization.

“I urge the world’s health ministers and the WHO to take our withdrawal from the organization as a wake-up call,” Kennedy said in a video address.

The announcement came amid the United States’ own decoupling from the agency. On Jan. 20, President Donald Trump signed an executive order announcing the government’s withdrawal from the agency via a “pause” on the “future transfer of any … funds, support, or resources to the WHO.”

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