“WHO’s priorities have increasingly reflected the biases and interests of corporate medicine,” Kennedy stated, mentioning his anti-vaccine and germ-theory denialist views. He chastised the health company for supposedly capitulating to China and dealing with the nation to “promote the fiction that COVID originated in bats.”

Kennedy ended the brief speech by promoting his Make America Healthy Again program. He likewise prompted the WHO to go through an extreme overhaul comparable to what the Trump administration is presently doing to the United States federal government– probably consisting of taking apart and keeping financing from crucial health companies and programs. Last, he pitched other nations to sign up with the United States in deserting the WHO.

“I would like to take this opportunity to invite my fellow health ministers around the world into a new era of cooperation…. we’re ready to work with you,” Kennedy stated.

The WHA welcomed partnership. Throughout the assembly today, WHO extremely voted to embrace the world’s very first pandemic treaty, focused on jointly avoiding, getting ready for, and reacting to any future pandemics. The treaty took control of 3 years to work out, however in the end, no nation voted versus it– 124 votes in favor, 11 abstentions, and no objections. (The United States, no longer belonging to WHO, did not have a vote.)

“The world is more secure today thanks to the management, partnership and dedication of our Member States to embrace the historical WHO Pandemic Agreement,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus stated. “The Agreement is a triumph for public health, science and multilateral action. It will guarantee we, jointly, can much better secure the world from future pandemic hazards. It is likewise an acknowledgment by the worldwide neighborhood that our residents, societies and economies need to not be left susceptible to once again suffer losses like those sustained throughout COVID-19.”