Panelists at this year’s World Economic Forum summit in Davos, Switzerland, are still continuing to warn about and discuss the future reality of yet another pandemic, in what can be done to prepare for them. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General at the World Health Organization (WHO), is adamant that another pandemic is coming, claiming its not “if” but “when.”
Tedros and a set of other guests discussed this during a segment called “Preparing for Disease X” – a placeholder term for any viral outbreak or plague that may become a threat on an international scale. The WEF asked, “With the World Health Organization continuing to research the potential of so-called ‘Disease X’, what novel efforts are needed to prepare healthcare systems for the multiple challenges ahead?” SEE: Professors Warn ‘Disease X’ Could Strike Soon, As Cases Of Monkeypox, Bird Flu, And Deadly Fevers Rise
Immediately to start off the conversation, speaker Shyam Bishen Head, Centre for Health and Healthcare; Member of the Executive Committee, World Economic Forum Geneva, also threw in the prospect that “climate change” was a important contributing factor to the healthcare sector and spread of disease.
He also explained that Africa, for example, has made great strides in increasing manufacturing capabilities for vaccines “in case there is another pandemic,” Bishen said. However, most Africans refused to take the Covid-19 vaccines, even after some governments levied some very harsh restrictions on their people in a bid to get them to comply. SEE: “Health Experts” Are Stunned That Africa Has Only A 6% Vaccination Rate But No Outbreaks Like The West
But to really get the conversation started, the WHO head Dr. Tedros explained that it is imperative to prepare for this “disease X,” because sleeping at the wheel and being unprepared would be far worse had they and others done nothing at all, even if discussing and preparing for it causes a stir, Tedros acknowledged.
There are things that are unknown that may happen, and anything happening is a matter of when not if.
Disease X is a placeholder for unknown diseases. I just wanted to clarify that because there has already been a lot of attention. Although COVID came immediately, we were preparing for COVID-like diseases. You may even call COVID the first ‘Disease X.’ And it may happen again.”
Of course, there are some people who say this will create panic. No! It’s better to anticipate something that may happen because it has happened in our history many times and prepare for it.
We shouldn’t face things unprepared; we can prepare for some unknown things as well.
The threat of another pathogen emerging with even deadlier potential remains. […] When the next pandemic comes knocking – and it will – we must be ready to answer decisively, collectively and equitably.
On top of this, the Director-General also made mention on the Pandemic Treaty that could be ratified this year, which Tedros said he hopes the member states reach the decision to accept the new accords. This revised treaty would explicitly transfer governance of nation’s federal health departments to the WHO, and would grant the Director-General the ability to declare a pandemic and thereby force the effected nations to comply with whatever the WHO dictates.
The WinePress has discussed and detailed this treaty in a number of reports:
- WHO Says ‘We Must Prepare’ For H5N1 Bird Flu Pandemic. Wants To Update Pandemic Treaty To Forcibly Vaccinate Countries At Their Own Will. *UPDATE*
- As Nations Convene To Discuss New World Health Organization Pandemic Treaty, There Is ‘No Dissent Registered’ By Participating Members
- Biden Admin. Reaffirms Commitment And Necessity Of Pandemic Treaty That Allows WHO To Declare And Control Medical Emergencies
Tedros said:
The other key in order to have better prepared and to address the disease X is the pandemic agreement. The pandemic agreement can bring all the experience all the challenges that we have faced and all the solutions into one.
That agreement can help us to prepare for the future in a better way because this is about a common enemy, and without a shared response starting from the preparedness, you know we will face the same problem as Covid.
[The] deadline for the pandemic agreement is May, 2024, and member states are negotiating. This is between countries, and I hope they will deliver this pandemic agreement by that time by on the deadline, because if his generation cannot do it – we’re the lived Community, we have the firsthand experience. I don’t think incoming the generation, the next generation will do it, so for our children and grandchildren’s sake, I think we have to convert all the lessons we have learned into this pandemic [sic] and prepare the world for the future;
Because this is a common global interest and national interest, very narrow national interest – very narrow National interest should not come into into the way. Of course, national interest is natural but it’s the narrow national interest that could be difficult and affecting the negotiations even as we speak.
So, we’re still not prepared but I think there are many moving parts, we have started good ones all of us together that that can prepare us better if we focus on the implementation of [these] initiatives.
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