Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'm going to address Mr. Nickerson, but I'm going to let him catch his breath.
Mr. Nickerson, Doctors Without Borders has considerable international field experience with pandemic issues. Doctors Without Borders has always believed in mitigation measures. You have considered border or school closures and quarantine. Even if that didn't stop the pandemic, you said it would slow it down.
The WHO has given conflicting advice in this regard. On March 14, it was said that border closures and quarantine were not a solution. Three days later, the director of the WHO European region said that this had the advantage of slowing down the pandemic. On Monday of this week, Maria Van Kerkhove, the technical lead of the pandemic management unit at the WHO, said that transmission of the virus by an asymptomatic person seemed to be very rare, which prompted a reaction from the community. Professor Liam Smeeth explained that asymptomatic infections could be in the range of 30%-50%. The best studies suggest that almost half of the cases were infected by asymptomatic or presymptomatic people.
My question is quite simple. What do you think of the effectiveness or the consistency and conflicting opinions of the WHO in the management of this pandemic?