The 194 member countries of the World Health Organization (WHO) have failed to achieve a breakthrough on a long-sought pandemic preparedness treaty. The latest round of negotiations began nearly two weeks ago in Geneva and were described as the UN health agency’s final push to forge an agreement on a draft text. The next steps are unclear. The goal was to have the so-called “pandemic treaty” adopted at this year’s World Health Assembly, which is the WHO’s supreme decision-making body. The meeting is due to be held starting at the end of May. In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, WHO members ca…