Thread by @Ayjchan

"The entire clause that suggested that the WHO should have speedy access to disease outbreak sites has been removed – at the insistence of China"

In other words, let's repeat the devastating mistakes made this time round when the next pandemic occurs.
healthpolicy-watch.news/report-on-pand…

Countries that refuse to admit independent international investigators when an outbreak has been detected are putting the entire world at risk for another pandemic.

This is dangerously irresponsible, anti-scientific, and not a sign of technological or moral leadership.

We should not have a repeat of this:

https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1217043229427761152

This pandemic has shown us that the world is only as strong as its most vulnerable nations.

Unless a country decides to forever cut off travel/business/immigration with other countries, no matter how pandemic prepared it is, it will eventually have to grapple with the pandemic.

Any policy (or lack of) that enables a novel contagion to spread out into other countries is ultimately self-harming for the country of origin, no matter how much worse the impact is on other countries.