Posted on 02/08/2023 3:51:01 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
The global response to COVID-19 represented a “catastrophic failure of the international community in showing solidarity and equity”. This frank assessment comes in the opening line of the first, or ‘zero’, draft of a new international pandemic agreement, published by the World Health Organization (WHO) last week.
Although it doesn’t say so explicitly, the WHO’s statement can be read as a rebuke to the leaders of high-income nations, highlighting the fact that their response to the ongoing pandemic has not been a model of cooperation or compassion.
The draft text encourages the waiving of applicable IP rights for a defined period during a pandemic. In addition, at least one-fifth of relevant vaccines must be deposited with the WHO, to ensure that sufficient numbers reach the world’s poorest and most vulnerable people at the same time as they reach people in richer countries.
It’s clear from the WHO’s zero draft text that the agency is determined to avoid a repeat of some of the worst of the behaviours seen during the pandemic. And it is reassuring to see, throughout the text, encouragement for governments and companies to be transparent and willing to share, particularly when it comes to know-how and products that are based on publicly funded research. Had this happened previously, the coronavirus pandemic might well have been behind us by now.
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This article is the most bogus, boring BS I’ve ever read.
Do away with the WHO and the WEF and things might settle down a bit.
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