WHO's regulatory arm clearly failed during coronavirus: Mike Pompeo

Edited excerpts from US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo's opening remarks at a press conference, April 22 in Washington DC

Turning to the World Health Organization (WHO), I want to spend a few minutes telling the American people a little bit more about the problems that we’re trying to work our way through.
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The WHO has two primary functions. First, it’s a regulator and an advisory role, and a health emergency and humanitarian aid operation on top of that.

After the first SARS outbreak in 2003, the United States led the reform of the WHO, the WHO rules that govern how countries report on public health threats. So a major reform effort at 2003.

Those rules — they’re called