evidence: Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and Texas Rep. Ronny Jackson, also asked their followers on Twitter to try to stop the treaty. A petition to stop the WHO’s pandemic treaty, which had over 80,000 signatures on May 24, claims the treaty "looks set to be one of the biggest power-grabs in living memory, with unelected globalists seeking the power to declare pandemics, and then control your country’s response." [...] It’s important to note that the amendments to the IHR proposed by the U.S. and the pandemic treaty are different things. Both are being discussed during this month’s session of the World Health Assembly. But as we explained, the IHR are an established set of rules that govern global public health emergencies. The pandemic treaty is a new global initiative to strengthen pandemic prevention, preparedness and response that won’t be ready until 2024. [...] Global leaders unite in urgent call for international pandemic treaty. News release. 30 Mar 2021.