The United States officially left the World Health Organization on Thursday after a year of warnings that doing so would hurt public health in the U.S. and globally, saying its decision reflected failures in the U.N. health agency¡¯s management of the COVID-19 pandemic.

President Donald Trump gave notice that the U.S. would quit the organization on the first day of ?his presidency in 2025, via an executive order.

According to a press release from the U.S. Health and State Departments, the U.S. will only work ?with the ?WHO in a limited fashion in order to effectuate the withdrawal.