Politico November 13, 2024
WORLD VIEW
Diplomats for the world’s nations are nearly three years into talks aimed at setting countries’ obligations whenever the next pandemic comes.
But with President-elect Donald Trump likely to pull the U.S. out of the negotiations, the entire effort could fall apart.
A U.S. withdrawal could potentially see other nations withdraw from the talks, as Trump might try to persuade allied nations to follow suit, said Larry Gostin, director of the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University.
“This would be catastrophic after all we suffered with Covid — three years of international negotiations to see it all unravel because of the election of one isolationist,” he said.
The U.S. is, far and away, the...
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