The WHO presses forward to establish its global authority

With growing opposition and in the face of biting criticisms from elected representatives in legislatures around the world, officials at the World Health Organization (WHO) doubled down and went in behind closed doors last week with their technocrats and public health delegates to produce a last minute agreement on more than 300 amendments to the International Health Regulations (IHR) document.

The officials and delegates operated in a shroud of secrecy in the week’s negotiations reviewing the amendments and, literally at the eleventh hour, came from their closed-door sessions with a consensus document held high over their heads. The IHR document that has been shared with the public is being heralded as a “decisive package of amendments.”

Still, what is uncertain is whether the public health delegates’ “consensus document” includes the contentious elements that the elected officials throughout Europe, United States, Australia, and elsewhere outright opposed, relating to sovereignty matt…