Episode 266: It's Time to Leave the WHO with Reggie Littlejohn and Meryl Nass
At a meeting of the World Health Assembly at the end of May, less than three months from now, the World Health Organization (WHO) will be voting to amend its International Health Regulations agreement and to create a brand new Pandemic Agreement.
Until now the World Health Organization has been largely an advisory organization. If voted in, these changes would make its edicts compulsory.
The proposed amendments replace the word "may" with "shall" over 100 times and the word "non-binding" has been deleted to make the recommendations of the WHO binding.
The agreements authorize the…
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