Victoria Fan, a senior fellow at the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Global Development, is not a fan of PHEICs in general. The binary nature of this tool — an emergency switch that can only be off or on — is of limited value, she argued. (Tedros may agree. He has spoken publicly about this limitation of PHEICs.)
A more nuanced tool would be more useful, said Fan, who suggested that on the question of the current Covid PHEIC, “the relevance is not apparent.”
“The longer it goes on, the less relevance it has,” she said.
