; (4) the failure by the Government of the People’s Republic of China to fully disclose information on the COVID–19 outbreak in a timely manner to the World Health Organization and other nations appears to constitute a violation of the International Health Regulations (2005), a legally binding agreement among 196 countries, including the People’s Republic of China; (5) the Government of the People’s Republic of China should be held accountable for the harm inflicted upon the lives and livelihoods of the people of the United States and other nations due to its efforts to conceal the emergence and spread of COVID–19; (6) although nation states are ordinarily entitled to sovereign immunity in the courts of other nations, the extraordinary harm caused by the COVID–19 global pandemic, and the evidence strongly indicating that this pandemic was caused by deliberate decisions by the Government of the People’s Republic of China to conceal the emergence and spread of COVID–19, justify removing the privilege of foreign sovereign immunity from that Government to facilitate the payment of damages to individuals harmed by this pandemic; (7) the United States Government should also establish and lead an international commission to determine fully how actions or omissions by the Government of the People’s Republic of China to conceal the emergence and spread of COVID–19 contributed to the transformation of COVID–19 from a local disease outbreak into a global pandemic