It does not matter if fear intervenes in stimulating the correct social response to the virus. You have to focus on the question of turning off the infections by the most correct and feasible procedure possible.
Forgetting about the issue of political fights, you have to focus on the health issue.
And the health issue, which has nothing to do with political ideologies, implies that the social response to the virus is crucial.
And the quality of that answer depends on the information about the covid-19 being correct. The problem is that he is not, because of the WHO, he has been reckless and negligent in his statements.
It has ensured that many governments do not seek more information and trust what the WHO said. And that has caused many deaths and a development of the pandemic that could have been avoided.