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.
At a minimum, one would expect any new pandemic treaty to address China's failures during COVID-19 to prevent a repetition in the future.
The WHO's current draft treaty does no such thing.
The treaty envisions an annual meeting of all treaty members-a "Conference of parties" just like the United Nations' climate change convention.
The financial responsibilities created by the draft treaty are vague and open-ended; they would leave an undue level of discretion to whatever international bureaucracy is created to determine the amount of financial support required from countries that ratify the treaty.
Specifically, parties to the treaty must "Combat false, misleading, misinformation or disinformation, including through effective international collaboration." Presumably, governments and the World Health Organization would decide what is misleading.
In addition to all of this, the draft treaty would obligate members to "Encourage" pharmaceutical companies under their authority to share proprietary technology with "Developing" countries and waive their intellectual property rights.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/02/20/the-pandemic-treaty-that-wont-prevent-a-pandemic/
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