The WHO, What, and Why of Trump’s first Health Executive Orders

America Dissected

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🗓️ 23 January 2025

⏱️ 96 minutes

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In this supersized episode, Abdul and Katelyn break down Donald Trump’s first executive orders targeting public health and healthcare. Then they discuss the final actions of the Biden Administration, including the preemptive pardon for Dr. Anthony Fauci, a directive to identify bird flu cases in hospitals, and adding Ozempic to this year’s Medicare prescription drug negotiations. Abdul also shares hopeful thoughts about the ceasefire in Gaza. Then he interviews Cornell Law Professor and Marguerite Casey Foundation Freedom Scholar Sabeel Rahman about the legal protections that will help buffer our public health institutions. Check out our shop at store.americadissected.com for our new America Dissected merch – including logo shirts, hoodies and mugs. And don’t miss our “Vaccines Matter. Science Works.” t-shirts! This show would not be possible without the generous support of our sponsors. America Dissected invites you to check them out. This episode was brought to you by: Calm: Get 40% off unlimited access to Calm’s entire library at calm.com/DISSECT. Our Big Shot: This new podcast series explores one of the biggest achievements in human history: the worldwide effort of immunization. You can listen to “Our Big Shot” wherever you get podcasts.

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0:00.0	Amidst a slew of executive orders, Trump pulls the U.S. out of the WHO and ends a prescription drug war.
0:15.4	Biden partings Anthony Fauci.
0:17.3	There's a ceasefire in Gaza, and an opposition campaign builds against RFK Jr.
0:21.6	This is America Dissected.
0:23.0	I'm your host, Dr. Abdul-El-Salad.
0:24.6	And I'm your co-host, Dr. Caitlin Jadalina.
0:31.2	All right, Caitlin, so, uh, dizzy yet.
0:34.4	Welcome to Trump's America 2.0.
0:37.6	Here we go. You laugh so Trump's America 2.0. Here we go.
0:38.6	You laugh so you don't cry.
0:41.8	Oh, there's, there's, I mean, you know, as we were planning the show, I just kept,
0:47.0	I kept looking at the alert buzzing on my phone and I'm like, got to cover this,
0:50.8	got to cover that.
0:51.7	There's so much to cover this week.
0:53.0	I don't even know where to start.
0:58.9	Caitlin, let's probably start at the most obvious piece here, which is the fact that Donald Trump is now president again. We have a public health system that does not deliver in times
1:05.2	of disaster, yet more money is spent on it than any country, anywhere in the world. And wasting no time, he signed a whole
1:14.6	slew of executive orders. He withdrew the United States from the World Health Organization,
1:19.4	the preeminent multinational public health organization. He withdrew the U.S. from the Paris Climate
1:23.9	Agreement, declared a national emergency on the U.S. Mexico border, which allows
1:28.2	the government to deploy the U.S. military to the border. He declared an end to birthright citizenship,
1:33.1	which, of course, a president cannot unilaterally do, given that it's protected in the Constitution,
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