WHO needs contentious new power to prevent next pandemic, panel finds

A panel of independent experts who reviewed the World Health Organisation's response to the coronavirus pandemic says the UN health agency should be granted "guaranteed rights of access" in countries to investigate emerging outbreaks, a contentious idea that would give it more powers and require member states to give up some of theirs.

Lawrence Gostin of Georgetown University said the panel "fails to call out bad actors like China, perpetuating the dysfunctional WHO tradition of diplomacy over frankness, transparency and accountability." An Associated Press investigation in June found WHO repeatedly lauded China in public while officials privately complained that Chinese officials stalled on sharing critical epidemic information with them, including the new virus' genetic sequence.

"Which states would actually allow WHO in to investigate an outbreak without their permission?" she asked.

And so they should. Better yet, the Chinese specialists shouldn’t of been the first people to carry out the investigation and give the ‘all clear’. So many lies from that country

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