"There is no substitute for political leadership," he says. "I think there's still a chance to try to contain it at source." The WHO should be the repository of information, but not the executor of decisions about what should happen at a local level,. Government should take us once. What I would recommend the WHO as others say is to counter-art with facts, provided the facts based on the evidence, the anthropology, the epidemiology of the disease we deal with. It is important to say we don't know this what we think. We have reconvened this committee in the setting of a substantially worsening pandemic. Many public health leaders are saying that misinformation about the potential