WHO Public hearings regarding a new international instrument on pandemic preparedness and response: written component

My Submission, from a Career Medical Librarian, 250 words, https://inb.who.int/home/written-submissions

A new international instrument on pandemic preparedness and response should include the following substantive elements:

1. The word "pandemic" should be understood to mean its classic 2003 WHO definition:  "An influenza pandemic occurs when a new influenza virus appears against which the human population has no immunity, resulting in several, simultaneous epidemics worldwide with enormous numbers of deaths and illness." https://web.archive.org/web/20030202200410/http://www.who.int/csr/disease/influenza/pandemic/en/index.html

2. "No immunity" means NO IMMUNITY.  Many people were immune to SARS-2; particularly people who had SARS-1 eighteen years earlier, and also many who had had coronavirus infections during their lives did well with it.

3. "Enormous numbers of deaths and illnesses" does not apply to figures such as those given by Dr. John Ioannidis re SARS-2, in "The infection fatality rate of COVID-19 i data," published in Bull. World Health Organ, Oct. 14, 2020. The infection survival rates given were:  

Age 0-19,  99.973% 

Age 20-29, 99.986%  

Age 30-39, 99.969%  

Age 40-49, 99.918%  

Age 50-59, 99.73%  

Age 60-69, 99.41%  

Age 70+, 97.6% (non inst.)  

Age 70+,  94.5% (Inst.)  https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33716331/

4. Preparedness and response elements developed in an instrument to address future pandemics, as described in #1 above, should be limited to ADVISORY GUIDELINES ONLY.

5. Such guidelines should be developed democratically through consultation with the national governments of the world

6. It MUST be stated in the instrument that all countries will be free to voluntarily accept or reject the guidelines instrument at any given future time.