COVID-19 HAS UNMASKED THE GLOBAL HEALTH THREAT OF
POPULIST LEADERS
Volume 15 | Issue 1 | June 2021
Michael Tanner
“Medicine is a social science,” opined Alexander Virchow, a physician whose name echoes down the halls of medicine’s history. “And politics is nothing but medicine on a larger scale”.[1] 2020 was, for many, the first year in which was witnessed the effect of public policy on health. It also unmasked the incompetence of a host of global leaders who rode to power a wave of right-wing populism; a wave that has, and will continue to, pose a challenge to all aspects of
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Graphic by Christine Manuel
