Public health officials and experts were braced for challenges. The scale of the new administration’s moves in the first few days, however, has shocked them.

The first week of President Donald Trump’s second term included several executive orders and actions that will be detrimental to public health.

On his first day back in office, Donald Trump proclaimed that the U.S. would pull out of the World Health Organization, disturbing many. Health officials may have taken solace in the fact it would take at least a year to withdraw,

This afternoon, the Associated Press is reporting that United States officials have officially ordered all public health officers to cease working at the World Health Organization just days after President Donald Trump signed an executive order pulling the United States out of the World Health Organization.