This study might make you hope for a female head of state during the next pandemic

[Andy Meek]

• Following the latest coronavirus update from one day to the next throughout the pandemic, some of you may have already reached this conclusion -- countries led by women seem to have done a better job, overall, at handling the coronavirus crisis compared to those led by men.
• That's according to the results of a new study of almost 200 countries, published by the Center for Economic Policy Research and the World Economic Forum.
• The latest data from Johns Hopkins University shows that there have been more than 22 million coronavirus cases globally so far, along with almost 780,000 deaths.

At a campaign event in Minnesota on Monday, an attempt at offering counter-programming of sorts as the Democratic National Convention kicked off on the same day, President Trump lobbed a rhetorical broadside at New Zealand, which has reported a handful of new coronavirus cases after mostly keeping a lid on the COVID-19 virus for an extended period.


“You see what’s going on in New Zealand?” Trump said at the event. “They beat it, they beat it, it was like front page they beat it ... because they wanted to show me something. The problem is ... big surge in New Zealand, you know, it’s terrible. We don’t want that.” Those remarks came after a coronavirus update in New Zealand saw the island nation report several new cases after more than 100 days with no reported community transmission.


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