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Episode: World Health Assembly hopes to reinforce pandemic preparedness after bold treaty project stalls
Description: Member countries kicked off the World Health Organization's annual assembly with hopes of improving global readiness for deadly outbreaks like COVID-19, after an ambitious "pandemic treaty" ran aground.
Health officials are racing to get the world to agree to new ways to prepare for and fight an inevitable future pandemic. COVID-19 is fading into history as elections and crises like climate change and war compete for the public's attention.
A bold project to adopt a pandemic "treaty" at the World Health Assembly was shelved on May 24 as 2 1/2 years of work ran into disagreements over sharing information about pathogens that cause...