STAT News | May 12, 2021
The report largely focused on changes needed going forward rather than a forensic recounting of the various missteps from early 2020, which drew criticism from Lawrence Gostin, faculty director of the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law and Georgetown University Law Center. “The Panel fails to call out bad actors like China, perpetuating the dysfunctional WHO tradition of diplomacy over frankness, transparency and accountability,” he said in a statement.