 The World Health Organization still isn't ready to call the coronavirus a pandemic. This says more about the WHO than it does about Covid-19. "That word is scary, and it's used in movies, [but] that word is not a proxy for a deadly apocalyptic virus," Jennifer Nuzzo from Johns Hopkins University Center for Health Security said in a recent briefing. On the basic WHO definition — the worldwide spread of a new disease — Nuzzo and many others think Covid-19 fits the bill. So why not say so? The question goes to the heart of why the WHO, which has played a major role in the postwar era in disease fighting and prevention, has been, to put it mildly, a frustrating actor in this crisis. The technical answer is that the WHO identifies a pandemic by various phases and doesn't believe that Covid-19 has hit all the markers yet. But that's not quite the whole story. Read the whole thing. Madoff Wants Leniency. My Dad Received None. — Ian Fisher Warren Buffett Flashes 'Urgent' — Tara Lachapelle How to Tell When Markets Finally Reach a Bottom — Jim Bianco The Coronavirus Is Starting to Go Global — David Fickling Why the Coronavirus Isn't a Buy-the-Dip Opportunity Yet — Mohamed A. El-Erian How Fast Can a Virus Destroy a Supply Chain? — Tyler Cowen Trump Laid the Groundwork for a Coronavirus Mess — Jonathan Bernstein Trump's Coronavirus News Conference Wasn't Exactly Reassuring — Jonathan Bernstein Disney's Big Secret Is Finally Out — Tara Lachapelle This is the Weekend Edition of Bloomberg Opinion Today, a roundup of the 10 most popular stories Bloomberg Opinion published this week based on web readership, plus some other stuff sometimes thrown in. | 
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