Trump 2.0 guts global pandemic preparedness.
Tollefson 3-6, *senior US correspondent, B.A. from the University of Wyoming, Knight Science Journalism Fellowship at MIT **M.A. from the London School of Economics and Political Science ***B.S. from Brown University, biomedical sciences reporter ****M.A. from Columbia University. (*Jeff **Natasha Gilbert ***Max Kozlov ****Mariana Lenharo, 3-6-2024, “Trump versus Biden: what the rematch could mean for three key science issues,” Nature, https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00657-w)
The United States’ role in global health is also at stake. During his presidency, Trump pulled the United States out of the World Health Organization (WHO) and generally pursued isolationist policies, Levitt says. “Biden has done a lot to undo that, but we will likely see a slip back if Trump were elected again,” he says. Officials in the Biden administration have expressed their commitment to a global pandemic treaty — an agreement being negotiated among countries to help prevent the next global-health emergency. Meanwhile, Republicans have been critical of it, suggesting that it could be a threat to US intellectual-property rights, forcing companies to share vaccine and treatment know-how.