It always has to start somewhere. For Professor Mosepele Mosepele, the journey was a vicarious experience in the Operating Room at the Mahalapye District Hospital. As Martha Henry aptly quotes Professor Mosepele in a 2014 Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health article, it was a simple fascination with “people dressed up all in blue with big lights hovering over patients like in a TV show”. Incidentally, the name Mosepele means journey in English and from that vicarious Operating Room experience Professor Mosepele’s journey into the medical field had thus begun. His resume speaks volumes of the man who in the wake of COVID-19 that is currently causing havoc in the world would become one of the focal persons in the fight against the virus. When the President, Dr Mokgweetsi Masisi, established a National COVID-19 Taskforce, among the brains and health experts he brought together was Professor Mosepele as Deputy Coordinator of the Taskforce. He was plucked from the University of Botswana where he is Acting Deputy Dean, Research and Graduate Education in the Faculty of Medicine. Professor Mosepele is also an Associate Professor of Internal Medicine and Infectious Disease and Head of Medicine in the Faculty. Prior, he…