British MPs fear a new treaty to boost the powers of the WHO will allow it to close borders and introduce vaccine passports
The World Health Organization (WHO) could impose lockdowns on the UK [and all European countries] in a future pandemic under new sweeping powers.
Member states would be required to follow the agency's instructions when responding to pandemics, including introducing vaccine passports, border closures and quarantine measures, according to a draft update of the regulations. Agency.
A new 'pandemic treaty' being discussed would also require Britain to spend 5% of its health budget on preparing for a new virus outbreak.
Ministers say they are alarmed by plans to increase the powers of the WHO, which would allow its governing body to require countries to hand over the recipe for vaccines, regardless of intellectual property rights, and to fight misinformation.
Tory MPs have written to ministers warning them of a 'clear ambition for the WHO to move from an advisory body to an international monitoring authority'.
A sign of the times, the microbiologist and infectious disease specialist presented his work on the social network Twitter, where he has nearly a million subscribers.
For the occasion, Didier Raoult quotes the American philosopher of Russian origin Ayn Rand: "You can ignore reality, but you cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality".
What is the reality ? In the context of the management of the health crisis, it is not that of politics and its narrative. This reality, that of story-telling and of the moment, Professor Raoult never worried about it.
He slams the door of the scientific council at the start of the health crisis. He challenges the health authorities (and a minister), when he demonstrates to them the possibility of quickly setting up, with his teams and the means at hand, a large-scale testing system. It welcomes patients from all walks of life into the IHU Méditerranée instead of leaving them alone, confined, without a solution and in fear.
In an emergency, he draws up a care protocol, in particular by resorting to the therapeutic repositioning of well-known molecules free of any patent. And it is in no way because of this feat of arms in the war against Covid that Raoult will receive a reprimand from the National Council of the Order of Physicians.
According to the Order, the professor would have been little brotherly in his statements against some of his dear colleagues...
The struggle of health care workers directly raises the subordination of health care to private profit. The domination of the global health care system by giant hospital monopolies, pharmaceutical, medical equipment and insurance companies makes it impossible to provide high quality health care to everyone, regardless of income.