The Committee on the Present Danger: China hosted a webinar on March 7 on the potential powers that could be granted to the World Health Organization (WHO).
The United States and other members of the WHO have been negotiating ways to give sweeping new powers to the WHO’s Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus. Through material changes to existing international health regulations and/or a new pandemic accord, Tedros would be able to declare actual or potential “public health emergencies of international concern” in any country on the basis of privately supplied information and without the agreement of the nation(s) affected.
The webinar examines related topics, including the need for Congress to act in extracting the United States from the WHO….