The proposed amendments would, for example:
- Eliminate the requirement that the WHO consult with a nation before taking action on a report of a potential health concern within that nation (Article 9)
- Obligate nations to “recognize WHO as the guidance and coordinating authority of international public health response,” giving WHO broad powers to require nations to follow its “guidance” (New Article 13A)
- Give State Parties power to issue “Passenger Locator Forms” for “the purposes of contact tracing” (Article 23, New 6)
- Give State Parties the ability to implement “an interoperability mechanism for secure global digital exchange of information . . . countering the dissemination of false and unreliable information . . .” in the media and social networks (Article 44, New D and New E).
- Establish an “Implementation Committee” and a “Compliance Committee” to monitor and facilitate compliance (Article 53A and New Chapter IV, Article 53 bis-quarter)
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