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Saturday, May 2, 2026

False claims about WHO pandemic accord resurface online - AFP Factcheck

Conservative websites and commentators claim the Biden administration has negotiated a deal to give the World Health Organization (WHO) control over pandemic laws in the United States. This is false; a draft accord specifically guarantees state sovereignty, and US officials and experts say it would have no power over domestic policies.

"The Biden administration is preparing to sign up the United States to a 'legally binding' accord with the World Health Organization (WHO) that would give the Geneva-based United Nations health agency the authority to dictate America's policies during a pandemic," says a February 18, 2023 article from the Epoch Times, a website that has previously published health misinformation.

The story accumulated tens of thousands of interactions on Facebook and Twitter, according to CrowdTangle, a social media insights tool. Anti-vaccine advocates such as Robert Malone and Steve Kirsch, as well as former US congresswoman Michele Bachmann, amplified the claims.

"There has never been a bigger power grab than this power grab -- and it's being led by the Biden administration," Bachmann told Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, a Christian conservative lobbying group, in a February 20 interview. "The whole purpose of this legislation would be that 194 countries, all of the member states of the UN, would give up their sovereignty to the World Health Organization over health care."

Bachmann, a Republican who ran for president in 2012, went...



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