Commentary
President Joe Biden’s diplomats are negotiating a treaty with the World Health Organization (WHO) to promote so-called global health equity. The premise is that in a pandemic or other worldwide disease emergency, Americans should not get better or faster health care than inhabitants of third-world countries. If Biden rams this through, Americans will suffer and die needlessly.
Under the draft treaty, presented in Geneva on Feb. 1, the United States will be obligated to hand over a whopping 20 percent of its medical supplies, including diagnostic tests, antiviral medications, and vaccines, to WHO for global distribution. Article 10 of the treaty specifies this will be done in “real-time,” not after American needs are met. The United States will no longer be able to rush treatments and vaccines to its own citizens, prioritizing them before sending aid to other countries….