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by Max Jones
July 3, 2024
In the face of a potentially industry-ending slew of patent cliffs, Big Pharma has begun acquiring biotechnology companies to stave off collapse. To get these drugs to market, the industry is pursuing the only solution left for their dying model: a full takeover of the WHO to capture the global regulatory system.
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Who funds the WHO?
The WHO is funded through regular contributions from member states — which make up 20% of its funding — and private stakeholders — which make up the other 80% and thus the bulk of its finances. The organization’s overwhelming reliance on private funding has made it vulnerable to vast influence from its stakeholders, providing an avenue for private actors to dictate WHO policy, sit on crucial committees, run entire distribution programs and even occupy top bureaucratic positions.
The private sector influence on the WHO materialized most tangibly and consequentially during the COVID-19 pandemic, when the pre-pandemic goals of WHO public-private partners like the Gates-funded Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) to “speed the development of vaccines” and Bill Gates (who advocated developing vaccines in 90 days or less) heavily influenced global pandemic response for WHO member states.
WHO Funding Sources from 2018 – SOURCE: World Economic Forum
Similarly, public sector bureaucrats such as Dr. Anthony Fauci, Obama’s former FDA commissioner Margaret Hamburg, and Rick Bright of BARDA and the Rockefeller Foundation, all advocated in an Oct. 2019 panel for the creation of a new system that emphasized “speed and effectiveness” and “fast” vaccines. Fauci declared the importance of changing people’s perception of influenza as a mild disease and doing so in “a disruptive [and iterative] way” and, as Whitney Webb noted in her exposé on Moderna, “[Bright]said the best way to ‘disrupt’ the vaccine field in favor of ‘faster’ vaccines would be the emergence of ‘an entity of excitement out there that’s completely disruptive, that’s not beholden to bureaucratic strings and processes.’ He later very directly said that by ‘faster’ vaccines he meant mRNA vaccines.”
Notably, whether or not member states had in place US/UK-like emergency use authorization laws, which allow for the fast-tracked development and distribution of experimental, unapproved drugs in the face of emergencies like pandemics, member countries universally adopted them to develop and/or distribute the COVID-19 vaccines—a quite “disruptive” and “fast” way of getting these vaccines to market, done exactly by not making their development “not beholden to bureaucratic strings and processes.”
Solidifying COVID-19 Measures, Paving the Way for the Pandemic Market
The central policy measures of the IHR amendments and the WHO CA+ treaty would create a permanent financial market centered around pandemic preparedness and response. The core ideology that runs through both of these conventions is the “One Health” agenda.
The “One Health” Approach – SOURCE: The One Health Commission
According to the WHO’s website, a “One Health” approach to pandemic preparedness and response plans to “[link] humans, animals and the environment” in order to “address the full spectrum of disease control – from prevention to detection, preparedness, response and management – and contribute to global health security.” In other words, it requires full-scale surveillance of the human-animal environment, both before pandemics for purposes of prevention and preparedness, and during pandemics for the purpose of response. Also vital to the One Health model is the interoperability and accessibility of data (gathered through surveillance) — or as the WHO puts it, “shared and effective governance, communication, collaboration and coordination.”
From a business perspective, the One Health agenda would create a cyclical market built on two dominant principles: constant surveillance of pathogens with “pandemic potential,” and R&D on medical countermeasures to these pathogens. This R&D then comes to market through the implementation of regulatory policies for the development and distribution of unapproved, experimental medical products. The recently approved IHR amendments have already cemented these principles into international law. The continued drafting of the WHO CA+ seeks to as well.
I. Biosurveillance on Pathogens w/ Pandemic Potential
Both conventions specifically call for member states to be legally required to build infrastructure to conduct biosurveillance on entire populations. For example, the WHO CA+ requires member states to “commit to promote a One Health approach for pandemic prevention, preparedness and response that is…integrated, coordinated and collaborative among relevant actors and sectors,” and to strengthen pandemic prevention through “collaborative surveillance” and “vector-borne disease surveillance and prevention,” among other similar provisions.
Similarly, a new addition to Annex 1 of the IHR calls on states to “develop, strengthen and maintain the core capacities to coordinate with and support the local level in preparing for and responding to public health risks…including in relation to: surveillance…implementation of control measures…[and] addressing misinformation and disinformation; and logistics.” This arguably reiterates a provision already established in the previously approved 2005 IHR, which says that member states must “develop, strengthen and maintain…the capacity to detect, assess, notify and report events in accordance with these Regulations.” Notably, however, the new IHR links surveillance to several other “core capacities”—including “implementation of control measures” and “addressing [mis/disinformation].”
While the approved IHR does not directly mention surveillance at the human-animal interface, the WHO remains committed to its One Health Initiative. Both of these statutes together would obligate member states to utilize biosurveillance tools to monitor dangerous pathogens.
The latest WHO CA+ treaty draft goes further on this front than the IHR, with one of its goals being to reaffirm “the importance of multisectoral collaboration at national, regional and international levels to safeguard human health, including through a One Health approach.” Under the draft, member states would also be required to “promote a One Health approach” for pandemic preparedness and response that is “coherent, integrated, coordinated and collaborative among all relevant organizations, sectors and actors, taking into account national circumstances.” Further, they must identify, presumably through building up surveillance capacities, “the drivers of pandemics and the emergence or reemergence of disease at the human-animal-environment interface…”
It turns out that the WHO’s private stakeholders began funding initiatives towards this end years before the COVID-19 pandemic. The Wellcome Trust, whose former director Jeremy Farrar is now Chief Scientist at the WHO, and the Gates Foundation funded an AMR Industry Declaration effort in 2016 which included an “industry commitment to share antimicrobial resistance surveillance data.” As part of this commitment, pharmaceutical companies agreed to “continue to share the surveillance data we generate with public health bodies and healthcare professionals…inform appropriate antibiotic and vaccine use and, over time, thereby help increase surveillance capabilities globally.”
Similarly, in a 2017 statement Bill Gates stressed the importance of biosurveillance data sharing: “We also have to ensure that every country is conducting routine surveillance to gather and verify disease outbreak intelligence…we must ensure that countries share information in a timely way, and that there are adequate laboratory resources to identify and monitor suspect pathogens.”
This kind of biosurveillance is not something novel or technologically distant. The Palantir and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) program “Protect” surveilled wastewater treatment plants across the United States “to predict new COVID-19 cases five to eleven days before an outbreak” as part of a mass data collection plan during the pandemic. The program was actually a resurrection of a post-9/11 surveillance program that had been housed at the Pentagon’s DARPA, but was quickly scrapped due to privacy concerns. Under Protect, the Trump administration forced US hospitals to enter “all data on Covid-19 cases and patient information directly into HHS Protect” by threatening Medicare and Medicaid funding for any hospitals who did not comply. Palantir, which obtained all of HHS’ COVID data, was created with significant CIA involvement in order to obtain predictive intelligence from mass civilian surveillance to stop threats – from terror attacks to public health emergencies – before they happen.
.
.
.
.
Corporate Greed: A Real Pandemic
As the line blurs between the so-called public and private sector, the greed that drives Big Pharma has reached completely irrational heights. The coming biotech pandemic market, the new heart of our “public health” system, functions on fear, embodied by the creation of a global biosurveillance system allegedly meant to prevent ever-increasing pandemics, and manipulation, disseminated through mandates and information control.
.
.
Much more here:
https://unlimitedhangout.com/2024/0...the-who-building-a-permanent-pandemic-market/
by Max Jones
July 3, 2024
In the face of a potentially industry-ending slew of patent cliffs, Big Pharma has begun acquiring biotechnology companies to stave off collapse. To get these drugs to market, the industry is pursuing the only solution left for their dying model: a full takeover of the WHO to capture the global regulatory system.
.
.
Who funds the WHO?
The WHO is funded through regular contributions from member states — which make up 20% of its funding — and private stakeholders — which make up the other 80% and thus the bulk of its finances. The organization’s overwhelming reliance on private funding has made it vulnerable to vast influence from its stakeholders, providing an avenue for private actors to dictate WHO policy, sit on crucial committees, run entire distribution programs and even occupy top bureaucratic positions.
The private sector influence on the WHO materialized most tangibly and consequentially during the COVID-19 pandemic, when the pre-pandemic goals of WHO public-private partners like the Gates-funded Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) to “speed the development of vaccines” and Bill Gates (who advocated developing vaccines in 90 days or less) heavily influenced global pandemic response for WHO member states.
WHO Funding Sources from 2018 – SOURCE: World Economic Forum
Similarly, public sector bureaucrats such as Dr. Anthony Fauci, Obama’s former FDA commissioner Margaret Hamburg, and Rick Bright of BARDA and the Rockefeller Foundation, all advocated in an Oct. 2019 panel for the creation of a new system that emphasized “speed and effectiveness” and “fast” vaccines. Fauci declared the importance of changing people’s perception of influenza as a mild disease and doing so in “a disruptive [and iterative] way” and, as Whitney Webb noted in her exposé on Moderna, “[Bright]said the best way to ‘disrupt’ the vaccine field in favor of ‘faster’ vaccines would be the emergence of ‘an entity of excitement out there that’s completely disruptive, that’s not beholden to bureaucratic strings and processes.’ He later very directly said that by ‘faster’ vaccines he meant mRNA vaccines.”
Notably, whether or not member states had in place US/UK-like emergency use authorization laws, which allow for the fast-tracked development and distribution of experimental, unapproved drugs in the face of emergencies like pandemics, member countries universally adopted them to develop and/or distribute the COVID-19 vaccines—a quite “disruptive” and “fast” way of getting these vaccines to market, done exactly by not making their development “not beholden to bureaucratic strings and processes.”
Solidifying COVID-19 Measures, Paving the Way for the Pandemic Market
The central policy measures of the IHR amendments and the WHO CA+ treaty would create a permanent financial market centered around pandemic preparedness and response. The core ideology that runs through both of these conventions is the “One Health” agenda.
The “One Health” Approach – SOURCE: The One Health Commission
According to the WHO’s website, a “One Health” approach to pandemic preparedness and response plans to “[link] humans, animals and the environment” in order to “address the full spectrum of disease control – from prevention to detection, preparedness, response and management – and contribute to global health security.” In other words, it requires full-scale surveillance of the human-animal environment, both before pandemics for purposes of prevention and preparedness, and during pandemics for the purpose of response. Also vital to the One Health model is the interoperability and accessibility of data (gathered through surveillance) — or as the WHO puts it, “shared and effective governance, communication, collaboration and coordination.”
From a business perspective, the One Health agenda would create a cyclical market built on two dominant principles: constant surveillance of pathogens with “pandemic potential,” and R&D on medical countermeasures to these pathogens. This R&D then comes to market through the implementation of regulatory policies for the development and distribution of unapproved, experimental medical products. The recently approved IHR amendments have already cemented these principles into international law. The continued drafting of the WHO CA+ seeks to as well.
I. Biosurveillance on Pathogens w/ Pandemic Potential
Both conventions specifically call for member states to be legally required to build infrastructure to conduct biosurveillance on entire populations. For example, the WHO CA+ requires member states to “commit to promote a One Health approach for pandemic prevention, preparedness and response that is…integrated, coordinated and collaborative among relevant actors and sectors,” and to strengthen pandemic prevention through “collaborative surveillance” and “vector-borne disease surveillance and prevention,” among other similar provisions.
Similarly, a new addition to Annex 1 of the IHR calls on states to “develop, strengthen and maintain the core capacities to coordinate with and support the local level in preparing for and responding to public health risks…including in relation to: surveillance…implementation of control measures…[and] addressing misinformation and disinformation; and logistics.” This arguably reiterates a provision already established in the previously approved 2005 IHR, which says that member states must “develop, strengthen and maintain…the capacity to detect, assess, notify and report events in accordance with these Regulations.” Notably, however, the new IHR links surveillance to several other “core capacities”—including “implementation of control measures” and “addressing [mis/disinformation].”
While the approved IHR does not directly mention surveillance at the human-animal interface, the WHO remains committed to its One Health Initiative. Both of these statutes together would obligate member states to utilize biosurveillance tools to monitor dangerous pathogens.
The latest WHO CA+ treaty draft goes further on this front than the IHR, with one of its goals being to reaffirm “the importance of multisectoral collaboration at national, regional and international levels to safeguard human health, including through a One Health approach.” Under the draft, member states would also be required to “promote a One Health approach” for pandemic preparedness and response that is “coherent, integrated, coordinated and collaborative among all relevant organizations, sectors and actors, taking into account national circumstances.” Further, they must identify, presumably through building up surveillance capacities, “the drivers of pandemics and the emergence or reemergence of disease at the human-animal-environment interface…”
It turns out that the WHO’s private stakeholders began funding initiatives towards this end years before the COVID-19 pandemic. The Wellcome Trust, whose former director Jeremy Farrar is now Chief Scientist at the WHO, and the Gates Foundation funded an AMR Industry Declaration effort in 2016 which included an “industry commitment to share antimicrobial resistance surveillance data.” As part of this commitment, pharmaceutical companies agreed to “continue to share the surveillance data we generate with public health bodies and healthcare professionals…inform appropriate antibiotic and vaccine use and, over time, thereby help increase surveillance capabilities globally.”
Similarly, in a 2017 statement Bill Gates stressed the importance of biosurveillance data sharing: “We also have to ensure that every country is conducting routine surveillance to gather and verify disease outbreak intelligence…we must ensure that countries share information in a timely way, and that there are adequate laboratory resources to identify and monitor suspect pathogens.”
This kind of biosurveillance is not something novel or technologically distant. The Palantir and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) program “Protect” surveilled wastewater treatment plants across the United States “to predict new COVID-19 cases five to eleven days before an outbreak” as part of a mass data collection plan during the pandemic. The program was actually a resurrection of a post-9/11 surveillance program that had been housed at the Pentagon’s DARPA, but was quickly scrapped due to privacy concerns. Under Protect, the Trump administration forced US hospitals to enter “all data on Covid-19 cases and patient information directly into HHS Protect” by threatening Medicare and Medicaid funding for any hospitals who did not comply. Palantir, which obtained all of HHS’ COVID data, was created with significant CIA involvement in order to obtain predictive intelligence from mass civilian surveillance to stop threats – from terror attacks to public health emergencies – before they happen.
.
.
.
.
Corporate Greed: A Real Pandemic
As the line blurs between the so-called public and private sector, the greed that drives Big Pharma has reached completely irrational heights. The coming biotech pandemic market, the new heart of our “public health” system, functions on fear, embodied by the creation of a global biosurveillance system allegedly meant to prevent ever-increasing pandemics, and manipulation, disseminated through mandates and information control.
.
.
Much more here:
https://unlimitedhangout.com/2024/0...the-who-building-a-permanent-pandemic-market/
