Canadian doc says WHO headquarters ‘stressed, devastated’ as Trump orders U.S. exit

TORONTO — A Canadian global health specialist says staff at the World Health Organization are “devastated” by President Donald Trump’s executive order to pull the U.S. out of the agency.Dr. Madhukar Pai, the Canada Research Chair in Epidemiology and Global Health, is at the WHO headquarters in Geneva this week for meetings about tuberculosis.He says losing the large amount of funding the U.S. provides would threaten public health around the world, including in Canada.Pai