Despite the failure of the Biden administration to give the World Health Organization (WHO) powers to impose a health emergency on any nation without consent, efforts to empower the WHO through regulatory overreach are continuing, said Alex Newman, an award-winning international journalist.
In January 2022, the Biden administration proposed 13 amendments to the International Health Regulations that would give the director-general of the WHO—a position currently held by Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus—the unilateral authority to declare a public health emergency in any nation based on whatever evidence the director chooses.
The far-reaching amendments were put forward on the agenda of the World Health Assembly, the decision-making body of the WHO attended by delegations from all member states, which convened in late May. But the adoption of the amendments was stalled by the opposition of some African and South American governments, especially the Brazilian government, Newman said….