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Many unhappy returns

The pandemic turns two in a world where freedom is under assault

19 March 2022

9:00 AM

19 March 2022

9:00 AM

On the second anniversary of declaring a pandemic on 11 March 2020, the World Health Organisation (WHO) is hoping to make itself even more powerful by negotiating a global ‘pandemic treaty’. After the unholy mess that the WHO made of mismanaging the pandemic, the idea of handing it more powers is alarming, yet negotiations on an international agreement to prevent and combat pandemics have begun, based on Article 19 of the WHO’s constitution, which allows its General Assembly to adopt binding agreements for all 194 member states by a two-thirds majority.

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