Recent global concerns with a new COVID-19 variant, new county health reforms thinking and the calling off a national health-workers strike suggest that rethinking the right to health is timely. Three years after the world’s attention on China and COVID-19, the year closed with another dangerous spike in China. The new #COVID19 variant (#XBB15) is another offshoot of the 2021 Omicron variant. This variant, while less virulent and dangerous than the Alpha, Beta, Gamma, and Del