Trump returns to the White House as the tenth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic once again inundates hospitals, while the last vestiges of public health are set for destruction.

Donald Trump has pulled the US out of the World Health Organisation (WHO), stating that the global health organisation mishandled the Covid-19 pandemic. In one of his first executive orders, the President said the agency failed to act independently from the “inappropriate political influence of WHO member states”.

The Search for the Origin of Covid-19', claimed the WHO has "failed" to properly investigate how the coronavirus pandemic began.

The rescinded orders include directives boosting the Affordable Care Act exchanges, coordinating the government’s COVID-19 response and overseeing artificial intelligence tools.

President Donald Trump announced Monday he is withdrawing the US from the World Health Organization, a significant move on his first day back in the White House cutting ties with the United Nations’ public health agency and drawing criticism from public health experts.

Conservatives are pushing Trump to distance himself from global health authorities, which experts believe could undermine future pandemic responses.

In 2020, Trump was highly critical of the WHO for being too "China-centric" in its tackling of Covid-19, and the organisation has since become a "target" of US conservatives over its work on a global pandemic treaty that they view as a "threat to American sovereignty", said the The New York Times.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order withdrawing the US from the WHO, citing mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic and financial disparities. The order ceases US contributions, impacting global health programs.

Since 2020 when the coronavirus outbreak in China’s Wuhan caused the Covid-19 pandemic, the gain-of-function research has been central to the possibility of the laboratory-origin of the virus

Public health experts warn that pulling out of WHO, which Trump attacked for its response to COVID-19, will leave Americans more vulnerable to health threats.

Trump told TIME in April he would close the White House's pandemic preparedness office. It's losing most of its staff during the transition, according to Biden officials.