(Marzena Skubatz) Amid conspiracy and conflict, WHO’s Tedros plans for the next pandemicListen 13 min Comment on this story Comment Gift Article ShareGENEVA — For better or worse, covid-19 made Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus a target. Before the global outbreak, the WHO often worked behind the scenes, tracking disease clusters and providing technical guidance to governments. The agency was founded in 1948 to coordinate the U.N.'s public health work in the post-war period. “The 1918 pandemic,” Tedros said, recalling that Trump had asked: “Could anything like that happen again?”AdvertisementThen, in 2021, Tedros also infuriated China. A starkly divided Congress would also probably fail to ratify a global health treaty with the required two-thirds majority.

Source: Ethiopian News September 27, 2022 09:23 UTC