If a “pandemic treaty” fails to account for the dismal international response to COVID-19 and isn’t focused on preventing future pandemics, is it really a “pandemic treaty”? Yet that’s the current state of a draft “pandemic treaty” being negotiated under the auspices of the World Health Organization.
The failures of the international health system’s response to COVID-19 are well-established. China failed to inform the international community of the outbreak of the new disease in a timely manner, as required by the World Health Organization’s International Health Regulations, a provision established because of Beijing’s cover-up of the 2002 outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS).
China mischaracterized COVID-19, saying there was no evidence of human-to-human transmission—a deadly lie that the WHO parroted unquestioningly.
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