disseminated understanding of the risks posed by the Ebola epidemic may have caused in their individual economies. (A) Those misrepresentations diminished the WHO’s effectiveness, and the WHO transmitted inaccurate and misleading information regarding the communicability of Ebola to participating States. (B) Other Member States relied on the misleading and inaccurate information that the WHO communicated to them to formulate public health policy, resulting in loss of life, injury, and damage to property and commercial interests to citizens outside of the misrepresenting States as a consequence of those countries’ misrepresentations to the WHO. (7) During the onset of the COVID–19 pandemic, China misrepresented the seriousness and nature of the novel coronavirus to the WHO, with a view towards minimizing the potential damage to their economy and international reputation. (A) Those misrepresentations diminished the WHO’s effectiveness and the WHO transmitted inaccurate and misleading information regarding the communicability of the novel coronavirus to participating States. (B) Other Member States relied on the misleading and inaccurate information that the WHO communicated to them to formulate public health policy, resulting in loss of life, injury, and damage to property and commercial interests to citizens outside of China as a consequence of that country’s misrepresentations to the WHO. (8) In failing to relay accurate information to Member States particularly at the onset of the COVID–19 pandemic, Director-General Tedros relied on false information provided by the People’s Republic of China and the Chinese Communist Party that the virus either could not be transmitted human-to-human or had a low rate of transmission, and based on such reliance, failed to thoroughly investigate the origins of the COVID–19 virus as well as contrary evidence of whistleblowers such as Li Wenliang regarding the virus’s transmissibility and lethality, thereby abetting the People’s Republic of China’s efforts to suppress information