The World Health Organization makes a case for itself
The World Health Organization (WHO) had a plan for this. If only somebody had listened. In 2005—about 15 years before the novel coronavirus emerged—the global public health agency adopted a revision to a set of regulations that had guided its approach to disease control and prevention since 1969. In the new legally-binding framework, 196 countries…
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