World Leaders Pledge $8 Billion To Fight COVID-19; U.S. Skips Meeting

By Bill Chappell

Published May 5, 2020 at 9:32 AM MDT

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"Today the world showed extraordinary unity for the common good," European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said. The U.S. was conspicuously absent from the event.

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Bill Chappell is a writer and editor on the News Desk in the heart of NPR's newsroom in Washington, D.C.

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