On today’s show: The Washington Post’s Dan Diamond explains what the Trump administration’s moves on public health mean for people in the U.S. and abroad. NPR reports on what Palestinians are seeing as they return to their homes in Gaza. The City’s Gwynne Hogan, who’s been speaking with immigrant families in New York, tells us how they’re on edge over Trump’s promise to deport undocumented people. Plus, how a Chinese AI company is disrupting tech and financial sectors, four-day workweeks are coming to more U.K. workers, and why a popular diet supplement is facing new scrutiny. Today’s episode was hosted by Shumita Basu.
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Good morning. It's Tuesday, January 28th. I'm Shamita Basu. This is Apple News Today. On today's show, what Palestinians are finding as they return to Gaza, how New York, a city of immigrants, is preparing for Trump's deportation crackdown, and why a new Chinese AI is disrupting American tech and financial markets.
But first, Donald Trump is rapidly changing America's public health priorities at home and abroad. Already, Trump has temporarily blocked officials at Health and Human Services, the CDC, the FDA, and the NIH from communicating with the public until at least February 1st.
His administration scrubbed information about abortion from federal health websites and shut down a site created by the Biden administration dedicated to reproductive rights and resources.
He's also halted the HIV AIDS prevention program PEPFAR, which distributes HIV medications in poorer countries, even going so far as to tell organizations on the ground not to distribute the medications even if they've already been purchased. And Trump says he'll pull the United States out of the World Health Organization. The AP reports that U.S.
public health officials were instructed to stop working with the WHO effective immediately.
Most public health experts are alarmed by this.
That's Washington Post White House reporter Dan Diamond.
The WHO plays a key role in identifying, say, the emergence of viruses abroad. Places that the U.S. isn't monitoring can't necessarily go. The WHO can and can report that up and share with the world an early warning on threats that may be coming.
For example, COVID-19. The WHO was instrumental in sharing data among countries. It also convinced China to release the genetic sequence of the virus in 2020 that paved the way for scientists here in the U.S. to develop a vaccine. So why is Trump taking this stand against the organization?
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