World leaders call for pooling resources against COVID-19 as U.S. continues to point fingers

As calls to pool countermeasures against COVID-19 grew Monday and Beijing committed $2 billion to the WHO, Washington continues to show little interest in cooperating with other governments via the world body to stem the coronavirus pandemic.

Dozens of governments made pledges of equitable access and shared IP on the first day of a two-day meeting of the World Health Assembly, the decision-making body of the WHO. The Trump administration used the event as a forum to renew its attacks on the WHO and China for what Washington sees as a lack of transparency regarding the severity of the outbreak...