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- WHO members met in Geneva for the eighth pandemic-agreement round, ending without a Pathogen Access annex.
- WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus urged rapid finalization, warning delays cost lives.
- The United States signed bilateral health-aid deals swapping pathogen data for aid, bypassing the treaty.
- James Love, director of Knowledge Ecology International, proposed equity contracts for products derived from shared pathogen data.