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The global response to #COVID19 has stalled over a question of scheduling:
When should there be a review of national and international responses to pandemic, including @WHO’s actions?
Thread cc: @ForeignAffairs & @CFR_org 1/ https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/china/2020-04-24/its-time-independent-coronavirus-review
When should there be a review of national and international responses to pandemic, including @WHO’s actions?
Thread cc: @ForeignAffairs & @CFR_org 1/ https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/china/2020-04-24/its-time-independent-coronavirus-review
The US wants review now.
It has blocked actions at G20, G7, and put a hold to US funding to @WHO. It wants accountability for virus’s origins, for China’s behavior, and for WHO handling of the pandemic 2/ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/20/us-scuppers-g20-coronavirus-statement-on-strengthening-who
It has blocked actions at G20, G7, and put a hold to US funding to @WHO. It wants accountability for virus’s origins, for China’s behavior, and for WHO handling of the pandemic 2/ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/20/us-scuppers-g20-coronavirus-statement-on-strengthening-who
Australia also wants review now 3/ https://twitter.com/TomBollyky/status/1252717516977209344?s=20
The UN and WHO want review later 4/
https://www.who.int/dg/speeches/detail/who-director-general-s-opening-remarks-at-the-media-briefing-on-covid-19---15-april-2020
https://www.who.int/dg/speeches/detail/who-director-general-s-opening-remarks-at-the-media-briefing-on-covid-19---15-april-2020
The desire to keep the focus on the pandemic ravaging poor and wealthy nations alike is understandable,
but here's why @D_P_Fidler & I think that UN/WHO should seize initiative to launch a credible independent review now 6/ https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/china/2020-04-24/its-time-independent-coronavirus-review
but here's why @D_P_Fidler & I think that UN/WHO should seize initiative to launch a credible independent review now 6/ https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/china/2020-04-24/its-time-independent-coronavirus-review
(a) Delaying independent review isn't fostering solidarity and it is jeopardizing needed progress at G7, G20 +other global institutions
Progress on global economic recovery, organizing for eventual equitable deployment of #COVID19 drugs/vaccines, removing export bans on PPE 7/
Progress on global economic recovery, organizing for eventual equitable deployment of #COVID19 drugs/vaccines, removing export bans on PPE 7/
(b) Refusing to establish a credible interim independent review process at UN only cedes the initiative to state actors, which may have dubious motives for organizing their own reviews and setting terms 8/
https://apps.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf_files/WHA68/A68_25-en.pdf
https://apps.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf_files/WHA68/A68_25-en.pdf
(c) A credible, science-based interim independent review process can improve pandemic response both now and in the future. See e.g., 9/
https://apps.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf_files/WHA68/A68_25-en.pdf
https://apps.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf_files/WHA68/A68_25-en.pdf
(d) It will also call the bluff of the nations bullying @WHO to back up their rhetoric with evidence and credible reform proposals. That may be first step toward a more cooperative international approach.
If there was ever a need for coordinated global action, it is now 10/
If there was ever a need for coordinated global action, it is now 10/
For more, please read the new @ForeignAffairs essay on this topic, via @D_P_Fidler and me 11/11 https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/china/2020-04-24/its-time-independent-coronavirus-review
