Following two years of negotiations, on Friday, the 194 member states of the World Health Organization (WHO) proved unable to reach consensus on a draft of its new wildly contested ‘Pandemic Treaty.’
The treaty was originally aimed at pooling resources and knowledge in a pandemic and at centralizing management—including legally binding decisions on lockdowns, mandatory vaccinations, border closures, vaccination passports, and other measures—giving unprecedented power to unelected officials at the WHO.
