U.S.-proposed amendments to the international health regulations which govern response to pandemics and the new global pandemic treaty, both on the agenda of the World Health Organization’s general meeting, pose a threat to countries’ sovereignty, said journalist and author Nick Corbishley.
The amendments proposed in January by the Biden administration will give the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) unilateral authority to declare a public health emergency in any nation based on whatever evidence the director chooses.
The WHO’s International Health Regulations, were introduced in 2005 and were “stimulated a bit by the SARS outbreak in 2003,” Dr. David Bell, an expert in global health and infectious disease who previously worked at the WHO, told EpochTV’s “Crossroads” program….