"Next week, the World Health Assembly – the governing body of the World Health Organization – will convene in Geneva for a long-planned meeting.
With an agenda set before COVID-19 times, this meeting stands as a totemic reminder to how unprepared the WHO was for the current pandemic.
There are motions to discuss air pollution, 'integrated, people-centred health services', smallpox (the last case of which was in 1977), and - this being a UN body - a motion to discuss some or other supposed Israeli outrage in the West Bank and Gaza.
Coronavirus on the other hand does not appear on the agenda once..."