WHO official tells us we must start now to increase surveillance, increase sequencing (no DNA privacy?) and increase the use of clinical care pathways

Which means everyone gets the same drug and nobody gets to choose. WHO gets a head start imposing its International Health Regulation amendments before they are voted on in May.

Michael P Senger @MichaelPSenger

Maria Van Kerkhove, lead author of the WHO’s February 2020 report advising the entire world to copy China’s lockdowns, urges more surveillance, sequencing, masking, and for “100% of individuals” who are over 60 or immunocompromised to be boosted for COVID.

Note that the last 3 years were not mentioned once.

She is a PhD who cut her teeth 14 years ago working for Neil Ferguson at Imperial College:

During the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic, Dr. Van Kerkhove worked directly with WHO’s Global Alert and Response and Global Influenza Programme to support the pandemic response. Her main activity during the pandemic was to coordinate the WHO informal mathematical modelling network for H1N1pdm under the leadership of Professor Neil Ferguson …

“And we really need to build trust.”