W.H.O.
Proper noun
Meaning
W.H.O.
Uncommon spelling of WHO (“World Health Organization”).
Examples
An unnamed official at the W.H.O., which had not been consulted, expressed his organization’s surprise in widely quoted comments, and noted that “no other countries have plans for mass inoculations” against what was popularly known simply as swine flu.
Offers of help from the W.H.O. and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had languished for weeks, but on Sunday Cui Tiankai, the Chinese ambassador to the United States, said experts from the W.H.O. would be allowed into China “very soon.”
“President Trump’s official notice of withdrawal from the W.H.O. is among the most ruinous presidential decisions in recent history,” Mr. Gostin, who is also affiliated with the World Health Organization, said in a statement.
American health officials are working closely with the W.H.O. and state and local health departments to monitor the situation.
The W.H.O. official's words were terribly misleading, but the organization quickly clarified that social distancing and masks are not just for those who clearly have symptoms.
The W.H.O. suggests paying for treatments that cost less than three times this figure for each year of good health they provide.