Efforts to draft global pandemic treaty falter as countries disagree on response to next emergency
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A global treaty to fight pandemics like COVID is going to have to wait: After more than two years of negotiations, rich and poor countries have failed - for now - to come up with a plan for how the world might respond to the next pandemic.