WHO chief thanks Biden and Fauci for keeping the US a member of the organization

Friday, January 22nd 2021 - 09:30 UTC

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“I send my deep thanks and warm congratulations to President Biden and Vice President Harris, and to the American people,” Dr. Tedros said.

At the meeting of the 148th session of the Executive Board of the World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday, WHO Director-General Dr Tedros welcomed the pledge that the United States will remain a member of WHO.

Following the announcement by Dr Anthony S. Fauci, representative of the United States, Dr Tedros said:

”Thank you, my brother Tony, and welcome to the WHO Executive Board as head of delegation for the United States of America.

Thank you, my friend, for your personal support for WHO over many years, and especially in the past year.

We have benefited immensely from your participation as a member of our regular global health leaders calls, since the start of the pandemic.

And thank you for your incredible leadership against the pandemic in the United States. This is a good day for WHO, and a good day for global health.

I send my deep thanks and warm congratulations to President Biden and Vice President Harris, and to the American people.

Thank you, President Biden, for honoring your pledge to maintain the membership of the United States in WHO. And thank you for your commitment to join the Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator and COVAX.

In my report to the Executive Board on Monday, I said that we must work together as one family to ensure all countries can start vaccinating health workers and other high-risk groups in the first 100 days of 2021.