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New York City and Illinois join WHO network after Trump pulls US out of global health body

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Illinois governor pledges to put ‘science, preparedness and people’ first by participating in global response network, following similar move by California

The state of Illinois and New York City have both announced that they will join the World Health Organization’s Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (GOARN), following Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw the US from the global body in 2025.

Illinois’s governor JB Pritzker, a Democrat, made the announcement on Tuesday, confirming that Illinois will become part of the coordinated international network dedicated to monitoring and responding to global disease outbreaks.

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