The Guardian and more of the mainstream media are reporting about the fact that the WHO notes that the global pandemic agreement is now at risk of falling apart. Check out the juicy news that brings hope to humanity below.
WHO warns global pandemic agreement is falling apart
The chief of the World Health Organization has warned that the plans for a global pandemic preparedness agreement are at risk of falling apart due to wrangling and disinformation.
The WHO’s 194 member states had decided over two years ago to start negotiating an international accord aimed at ensuring countries are better prepared to deal with the next health crisis, or to prevent it altogether following the Covid-19 pandemic.
The plan was to finalize the agreement at the 2024 World Health Assembly, which is scheduled to convene on May 27. The chief has expressed concern that failure to achieve the agreement could lead to future generations not forgiving us.
However, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the WHO’s director-general, said the momentum had been slowed down by entrenched positions and “a torrent of fake news, lies, and conspiracy theories”.
He warned that if nobody was prepared to seize the initiative or give ground, the whole project risked going nowhere.
Tedros told the WHO’s executive board in Geneva on Monday: “Time is very short. And there are several outstanding issues that remain to be resolved.”
Failure to strike an agreement would be “a missed opportunity for which future generations may not forgive us”, he said.
Tedros stated that all countries require the ability to identify and share pathogens that pose a threat, as well as timely access to tests, treatments, and vaccines.
He called for a “strong agreement that will help to protect our children and grandchildren from future pandemics”.
Tedros said claims that the accord would cede sovereignty to the WHO or give it the power to impose lockdowns and vaccine mandates were “completely false”
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“We cannot allow this historic agreement, this milestone in global health, to be sabotaged.”
In December 2021, WHO member states agreed to create a new international instrument to prevent, prepare for, and respond to pandemics. The aim is to ensure that the deficiencies that led to Covid-19 becoming a global crisis are never repeated.
The WHO emergencies director, Michael Ryan, reminded countries how the pandemic “ripped apart our social, economic and political systems and became a multi-trillion dollar problem.”
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