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The United States is working with the World Health Organization's 193 other members to prepare for another global pandemic.
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In spring 2022, U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration was preparing to give the country’s sovereignty over health issues to the World Health Organization (WHO), granting the organization the power to implement its own lockdowns.
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This claim stemmed from talks in 2022 among WHO’s member states, which include the U.S., around amending existing International Health Regulations. As of this writing, while there was no official version of what the WHO was calling a “pandemic preparedness accord,” the Biden administration had released its own ideas, and they did not include a plan to give the nation’s sovereignty to the WHO, or offer ways for the WHO to gain new authority to implement lockdowns.
Fact Check
In May 2022, rumors surfaced claiming that U.S. President Joe Biden was planning to give the country’s sovereignty over health issues to the World Health Organization (WHO), along with the leaders of 193 other countries. While these rumors stemmed from genuine proposals that United Nation members were discussing at the time to strengthen the world’s preparedness against global pandemics, they grossly exaggerated, distorted, and misinterpreted the actual impacts of the proposed ideas.
For example, one popular claim held that proposed amendments to existing guidelines would grant WHO the authority to lock down countries. Former Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann popularized that assertion when she discussed the issue in an interview with Steve Bannon, a political strategist who was charged with defrauding people before he was pardoned by former President Donald Trump.
Mặc dù sự thật là gần 200 quốc gia (bao gồm cả Hoa Kỳ) là thành viên của WHO và nhóm đó đang thảo luận về những thay đổi tiềm năng đối với cách họ làm việc cùng nhau kể từ mùa xuân năm 2022 (chúng tôi trình bày chi tiết về thực tế đó bên dưới), Bachmann tuyên bố rằng những cuộc đàm phán đó có thể dẫn đến việc WHO có thẩm quyền mới để thực hiện các lệnh cấm vận ở Hoa Kỳ hoặc bất kỳ quốc gia nào khác là không đúng sự thật.
While it was true that almost 200 countries (including the U.S.) were members of WHO, and that that group was discussing potential changes to how they work together as of spring 2022 (we elaborate on that fact below), Bachmann’s claim that those talks could result in the WHO having new authority to implement lockdowns in the United States or any other country was untrue.
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The United States is working with the World Health Organization's 193 other members to prepare for another global pandemic.
- Published 17 May 2022
Image via Flickr / White House
Claim
In spring 2022, U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration was preparing to give the country’s sovereignty over health issues to the World Health Organization (WHO), granting the organization the power to implement its own lockdowns.
Rating
False
About this rating
Context
This claim stemmed from talks in 2022 among WHO’s member states, which include the U.S., around amending existing International Health Regulations. As of this writing, while there was no official version of what the WHO was calling a “pandemic preparedness accord,” the Biden administration had released its own ideas, and they did not include a plan to give the nation’s sovereignty to the WHO, or offer ways for the WHO to gain new authority to implement lockdowns.
Fact Check
In May 2022, rumors surfaced claiming that U.S. President Joe Biden was planning to give the country’s sovereignty over health issues to the World Health Organization (WHO), along with the leaders of 193 other countries. While these rumors stemmed from genuine proposals that United Nation members were discussing at the time to strengthen the world’s preparedness against global pandemics, they grossly exaggerated, distorted, and misinterpreted the actual impacts of the proposed ideas.
For example, one popular claim held that proposed amendments to existing guidelines would grant WHO the authority to lock down countries. Former Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann popularized that assertion when she discussed the issue in an interview with Steve Bannon, a political strategist who was charged with defrauding people before he was pardoned by former President Donald Trump.
Mặc dù sự thật là gần 200 quốc gia (bao gồm cả Hoa Kỳ) là thành viên của WHO và nhóm đó đang thảo luận về những thay đổi tiềm năng đối với cách họ làm việc cùng nhau kể từ mùa xuân năm 2022 (chúng tôi trình bày chi tiết về thực tế đó bên dưới), Bachmann tuyên bố rằng những cuộc đàm phán đó có thể dẫn đến việc WHO có thẩm quyền mới để thực hiện các lệnh cấm vận ở Hoa Kỳ hoặc bất kỳ quốc gia nào khác là không đúng sự thật.
While it was true that almost 200 countries (including the U.S.) were members of WHO, and that that group was discussing potential changes to how they work together as of spring 2022 (we elaborate on that fact below), Bachmann’s claim that those talks could result in the WHO having new authority to implement lockdowns in the United States or any other country was untrue.
More:
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/bi...vereignty-who/