WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump's plan to make good on his threat to withdraw from the World Health Organization has sparked worry from health experts, Brianna Ehley and Alice Miranda Ollstein report. Trump has criticized the U.N. agency for failing to quickly sound the alarm when the virus emerged and accused it of helping China cover up the threat. Friday's news follows Trump's temporary freeze last month on U.S. funding to WHO.

The American Medical Association, the nation’s largest physician group, urged Trump in the "strongest terms possible" to reverse the decision. Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), the head of the chamber's health committee, warned canceling U.S. membership could disrupt clinical trials for vaccines that will be in high demand around the world.

The Senator said, "Certainly there needs to be a good, hard look at mistakes the World Health Organization might have made in connection with coronavirus, but the time to do that is after the crisis has been dealt with, not in the middle of it.”

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