Days after President Trump said the U.S. would freeze funding for the World Health Organization last month, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison pushed for a revamp of the agency’s mandate to give it powers to investigate potential pandemics similar to weapons inspectors. The proposal spoke to the failure of efforts in recent decades to overhaul the WHO, even as the outbreaks of yellow fever, SARS, Ebola and now the new coronavirus sparked repeated calls from health experts for an expanded mandate for the agency.

Source: Wall Street Journal May 28, 2020 16:40 UTC