US Reviewing How WHO Is Run as Group’s Chief Defends Actions

World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (R) and WHO Health Emergencies Programme Director Dr. Mike Ryan attend a press briefing on COVID-19 in Geneva, Switzerland, on March 6, 2020. Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images

The United States is reviewing how the World Health Organization (WHO) is being run, an American official said Wednesday, around the same time the WHO’s chief defended the body’s actions during the CCP virus outbreak.

President Donald Trump paused U.S. funding to the United Nations group this month amid widespread backlash to the WHO seemingly being in lockstep with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).