![]() ![]() The WHO itself told Fortune in an emailed statement that all 194 of its member countries are involved in the treaty’s development “on equal terms,” and the goal was to “promote global collaboration to prevent, prepare for and respond to crises in the future, and preventing a repeat of the COVID-19 pandemic.” “The WHO aren’t going to be suggesting lockdowns and, even if they were to, governments don’t have to do it.” “At no point has anyone ever suggested the WHO is going to have the power to enforce lockdowns or supersede sovereign interest,” said Wenham. Now, the World Health Organization has sought this authority for years. “So, you’re going to find out exactly when you’re allowed to get on a bus or train or airplane or how about your bicycle? Will they regulate that too? Maybe. Specifically, that means new alert systems, more data sharing, better research, and improved “regional and global production and distribution of medical and public health counter-measures such as vaccines, medicines, diagnostics and personal protective equipment.”īut back to Tucker Carlson, who is outraged at the idea of the WHO sharing “real-time information about travel measures”: As a host of world leaders put it in a joint statement back in March 2021: “We must be better prepared to predict, prevent, detect, assess and effectively respond to pandemics in a highly coordinated fashion.” “The idea is that public health law was insufficient during COVID, so we need to bring political commitment on top.” “The pandemic treaty is supposed to demonstrate the political commitment alongside the public health law,” said Wenham. “I can understand why there’s confusion, but there are separate processes that are interlinked,” Wenham said. government did indeed earlier this year submit amendments to the IHR, which will be voted on in the World Health Assembly (the WHO’s decision-making body) next week. What did happen a few weeks ago is that the WHO asked governments to send in their wish-lists for the treaty, which will then inform the contents of that first draft.Īccording to Wenham, Carlson has probably confused the pandemic treaty process with changes that are being made to the International Health Regulations (IHR), a legally binding global agreement that has been around since 1969 and been repeatedly revised, mostly recently in 2005. “No-one has got the text of it yet-the text hasn’t been drafted yet.” “At no points have governments agreed to what it’s going to include and won’t include,” said Clare Wenham, associate professor of global health policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science. ![]()
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