Law proposed by the League in the Senate after the signing of a decree signed by Trump last Monday, shortly after his inauguration.
Following the US President's announcement, WHO spokesman Christian Lindmeier declared that this choice “It is a global health concern, because WHO provides critical information to the US” as well as all 194 other member states, “on outbreaks and emerging health threats.”
The possibility that Italy may leave the WHO confirms the worrying trail that could be created after the United States' decision, with the involvement of other countries as well. Since its inception, the WHO has had the task of guiding the main decisions regarding healthcare at a global level, has the responsibility of creating health research programs and sets standards useful to member countries to understand what is or is not a health hazard.
During the pandemic, for example, WHO provided technical assistance to member states at a critical time that involved the world's population and played a key role in timely funding for research and the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic. Fighting that without LWHO it would have certainly occurred over a longer period of time, with quantifiable negative consequences in human lives.
The scientist and senator for life Elena Cattaneo declared in her speech “scientific nationalism, starting from the biomedical field, the autarchic idea of a knowledge that stops at the borders. Not only is it a contradiction with the method of science that has its DNA in the borderless comparison between scholars and institutions.
But it is the surest recipe for crashing into the wall of ignorance and superstition, producing poverty and marginalization." The scientist, in one of her speeches, stated that "when we legislate by ignoring, or worse, distorting scientific data, the relationship with reality is lost, and everything is reduced to a quantitative power relationship between those who affirm the scientific fact that two plus two equals 4 and those who maintain that it equals 3 or 5.
Today, surprisingly, living in an alternative reality, where data changes according to what is convenient, is seen by many as a goal, and no longer a danger."
Marcus Barbatus
Article published on 26 January 2025 - 07:37
