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WHO brings countries together to test collective pandemic response

4 April 2025 News release Geneva 

Over the past two days, WHO convened more than 15 countries and over 20 regional health agencies, health emergency networks and other partners to test, for the first time, a new global coordination mechanism for health emergencies.

The two-day simulation, Exercise Polaris, tested WHO’s Global Health Emergency Corps (GHEC), a framework designed to strengthen countries’ emergency workforce, coordinate the deployment of surge teams and experts, and enhance collaboration between countries.

The exercise simulated an outbreak of a fictional virus spreading across the world.

Participating countries included Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Denmark, Ethiopia, Germany, Iraq, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Mozambique, Nepal, Pakistan, Qatar, Somalia Uganda and Ukraine, with additional countries as observers. Each country participated through its national health emergency coordination structure and worked under real-life conditions to share information, align policies and activate their response.

Regional and global health agencies and organizations, including Africa CDC, European CDC, IFRC, IOM, UNICEF and established emergency networks such as the Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network, the Emergency Medical Teams initiative, Stand-by partners and the International Association of National Public Health Institutes, worked together to support country-led responses. More than 350 health emergency experts connected globally through this exercise.

“This exercise proves that when countries lead and partners connect, the world is better prepared,” said Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General. “No country can face the next pandemic alone. Exercise Polaris shows that global cooperation is not only possible – it is essential.”

Throughout the simulation, countries led their own response efforts while engaging with WHO for coordination, technical guidance and emergency support. The exercise provided a rare opportunity for governments to test preparedness in a realistic environment, one where trust and mutual accountability were as critical as speed and capacity.

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WHO Director-General's opening remarks at the 150th session of the Executive Board — 25 January 2022

WHO Director-General's opening remarks at the 150th session of the Executive Board — 25 January 2022

25 January 2022


Dr Patrick Amoth, Chair of the Executive Board,

Excellencies, dear colleagues and friends,

Five years ago, you, the Member States gave me the honour of my life, when you placed your trust in me to lead and transform this vitally important global organisation.

I told you then that my priority was to listen, and that is what I have tried to do.

I listened to you about your priorities and ideas, and what you expect from your WHO.

And I listened to those who know WHO best – our workforce, my colleagues – for their ideas about how to make this Organization the best it can be.

Those ideas became the basis of the transformation, to make WHO an Organization that can deliver a measurable difference to health in countries, in six ways:

By the way, I would like to share with you that I continue to listen to our staff every week on Thursdays, to listen to their advice and innovative ideas. The culture has continued. When I was Minister of Health and Minister of Foreign Affairs in Ethiopia, I used the same thing, listening on Thursday to my staff, because listening is the basis. If you listen, the next steps will be okay.

From listening to Member States and staff, a new strategy – the 13th General Programme of Work – to move us from a focus on outputs to a focus on outcomes has been developed;

New processes, to make us more efficient and effective;

A new operating model, moving from an organization that is fragmented towards one that is integrated, aligned and agile;

A new approach to partnerships, moving from risk aversity to risk management;

A new approach to financing, to move us towards a more sustainable and predictable funding model;

And a new culture, built on a shared commitment to service, professionalism, integrity, collaboration and compassion.

That was the product of listening to Member States and listening to my colleagues, my staff.

Then, as you know, two years ago, COVID-19 changed everything. But the transformation – built on the ideas and energy of our staff – had positioned us to respond more rapidly and effectively than to any previous emergency.

Let me take a moment to share a story from the beginning of the pandemic that really touched my heart and gave me energy and inspiration.

On December 31st 2019, New Year’s Eve, as most of the world was having a party, our WHO colleagues were at work, scanning potential signals as they do 365 days a year.

And that's when they saw the first signal about a cluster of cases of viral pneumonia of unknown cause, from a website in Wuhan.

They didn’t say it could wait until the New Year, they acted immediately, alerting me and others.

The next day, January 1st, they didn’t take a holiday, they continued to work to verify the signal, and the next day, January 2nd, they confirmed it, triggering the response across the entire organization.

They said we have a new disease which is serious, they didn’t have a New Year’s Eve, a New Year’s celebration, working throughout – and me too, although I took my first holiday since I joined WHO, and I remember that I was in Dubai, but it wasn’t a holiday for them and it wasn’t a holiday for me. That was the first holiday in 5 years for me, and that didn’t even work, because of the bad news.

What's in a name? WHO Director General.

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

Director General of the (United Nation's) World Health Organization

Meaning of his name in Amharic or Tigrinya, Languages of Ethiopia and Eritrea.

Tedros................Gift of God

Adhanom............He saved them

Ghebreyesus........Servant of Jesus

Sources:

1. https://kidadl.com/baby-names/meaning-of/tedros
2. https://www.names.org/n/adhanom/about
3. https://www.names.org/n/ghebreyesus/about

The True Agenda of the WHO: A New World Order Modeled After China

The WHO has been handling the COVID-19 outbreak in a specific matter. It went from downplaying the virus and lobbying against travel bans from China to pushing for the constant lockdown of the world and its economy. There’s a method behind the madness: The WHO is using the pandemic to move towards a New World Order that is modeled after China’s oppressive regime.

Published 3 weeks ago

on April 29, 2020

By Vigilant Citizen

Since the outbreak of COVID-19 outside of China, the World Health Organization (WHO) has taken a prominent role in the handling of the pandemic on a global level. The unquestioned power and influence of this organization created by the United Nations lead most governments around the world to shape their policies and pandemic response according to the WHO’s data and guidelines. In other words, nations enabled a global (and non-democratic) entity to dictate decisions that are taken on a national and local level.

The result of this direct pipeline between the WHO and national governments has been profound and far-reaching. Fueled by apocalyptic models and projections, governments were urged to confine their entire population while shutting down their entire economies for several months. The devasting consequences of this global lockdown are still difficult to quantify. However, a prediction made in my article COVID-19 Lockdown: A Global Human Experiment quickly came to fruition: Billions of dollars were funneled from the working class towards the elite.




A Fast Company headline about the financial elite profiting from the pandemic.

So why is the WHO giving orders to nations and their democratically elected governments? Is it due to its proven track record and educated advice? Clearly not. Because the organization’s response to the pandemic at its earliest and most critical stages was nothing less than disastrous. Some might argue that it was even deliberate.

On January 14th, the WHO claimed that there was no human-to-human transmission – citing Chinese sources.

On February 4th, WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus spoke against travel restrictions on China, saying such measures could cause “fear and stigma”. He added that there “no reason for panic and fear”, he said.

Since most world governments blindly followed the WHO’s recommendations, air travel from China continued for weeks and allowed the spread of the virus across the world. And, when some countries nevertheless moved forward to stop travel from China, the WHO actively lobbied against it.

The WHO directly lobbied against banning travel to countries, including China.

A statement released as late as February 29, argued against travel bans because they “may disrupt businesses, and may have negative social and economic effects on the affected countries”.

“WHO continues to advise against the application of travel or trade restrictions to countries experiencing COVID-19 outbreaks,” the statement said.

“In general, evidence shows that restricting the movement of people and goods during public health emergencies is ineffective in most situations and may divert resources from other interventions.”

Academic research by the University of Southampton has revealed up to 95 percent of deaths would not have happened if the WHO acted earlier.
– SKY News, China used WHO in a bid to open Australia’s borders

The last sentence is particularly damning: 95% of deaths could have been avoided if the WHO did not go against travel bans from China. Considering the fact the WHO actively worked against the single most important measure to stop the spread of the virus, why is it still shaping government policies? Because it is linked to the global elite.


The Power of the WHO

Despite spreading information that was outright false and dangerous, the WHO remains unquestionably influential across the world. On April 18th, the organization showcased its immense power by broadcasting Together At Home, a massive media event that had countless celebrities and powerful people praise the WHO and the elite entities behind it.

The WHO is also heavily invested in controlling the flow of information regarding the virus.

A headline from The Verdict.

Speaking on CNN’s Reliable Sources, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki stated that the streaming platform would be “removing information that is problematic” and that would include “anything that is medically unsubstantiated”. She added:


“So people saying ‘take vitamin C; take turmeric, we’ll cure you’, those are the examples of things that would be a violation of our policy. Anything that would go against World Health Organisation recommendations would be a violation of our policy.”

Why would YouTube even care if people talked about vitamin C in their videos? Because, since the beginning of the outbreak, the WHO has been suspiciously against any kind of remedy or solution against COVID-19. Every single time a treatment shows promise, the WHO and the media system that caters to it are quick to warn against them and even label it as dangerous.

Why? Because the WHO is banking on a single, universal solution: A Vaccine.
A Vaccine and Nothing Else

To fully understand the mindset behind the WHO, we must look at the funding behind the WHO.