5 world leaders who made deadly mistakes in handling COVID-19 Sumit Ganguly, Dorothy Chin, Elizabeth J King, Elize Massard da Fonseca, Salvador Vázquez del Mercado, and Scott L. Greer , Ueslei Marcelino/Reuters
COVID-19 is hard to control, and political leaders are only part of the process to manage the pandemic.
But some current and former world leaders have made little effort to combat outbreaks in their countries.
COVID-19 is notoriously hard to control, and political leaders are only part of the calculus when it comes to pandemic management.
But some current and former world leaders have made little effort to combat outbreaks in their country, whether by downplaying the pandemic s severity, disregarding science or ignoring critical health interventions like social distancing and masks.
COVID-19 is notoriously hard to control, and political leaders are only part of the calculus when it comes to pandemic management. But some current and former world leaders have made little effort to combat outbreaks in their country, whether by downplaying the pandemic’s severity, disregarding science or ignoring critical health interventions like social distancing and masks. All of the men on this list committed at least one of those mistakes, and some committed all of them – with deadly consequences.
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