Former World Health Organisation medical officer Dr David Bell says talks to draw up a global pact to help fight future pandemics is a “business scheme” based on a “fallacy” there is an increasing risk of widespread epidemics. The WHO’s 194 member states are attempting to strike a landmark global agreement on handling future pandemics. “It’s a business scheme on a level we’ve never seen before to channel public funds into pharmaceutical companies and investment houses that own them,” Dr Bell told Sky News Australia. “In the process impoverish the population and take away the basic freedoms we thought were ours.”
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