(Science) – Three years in the making, the accord aims to increase equity and avoid errors of the COVID-19 pandemic

It took an extension to the extension of the extension, but after more than 3 years of negotiations, governments around the globe—but notably, not the United States—have finally agreed on a treaty to improve how the world prevents, prepares for, and responds to future pandemics, including the basics of a system to share vaccines and drugs more equitably than during the COVID-19 pandemic. “The nations of the world made history in Geneva today,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO), said after the talks concluded around 3 a.m. on Wednesday. (Read More)