
World Leaders ponder the creation of a world treaty to allow for governments to universally address the rising threat to the world that the Omicron variant of the Coronavirus is, even if it’s not at all sure that it is. Either way, even if Omicron is all contagious and mild symptoms, a reprieve from the daily mullings of wanna-be world rulers fighting over scraps of better than their neighbors is welcome nonetheless
As omicron variant alarm spreads, countries mull a radical ‘pandemic treaty’
From www.washingtonpost.com
2021-11-30 17:01:40
By Adam Taylor
Excerpt:
Less than a week after the new variant was reported to the World Health Organization (WHO) by South Africa, global leaders met Monday to discuss the creation of a new international agreement to better deal with historic outbreaks — what some advocates have dubbed a “pandemic treaty.” The special session of the World Health Assembly (WHA), only the second ever held by the WHO’s governing body, is expected to last until Wednesday.