> MEDICAL EDUCATION PRIZE ... Bolsonaro, Johnson, Modi, Trump, Putin, et al. for using the Covid-19 viral pandemic to teach the world that politicians can have a more immediate effect on life and death than scientists and doctors can.

We shouldn't consider this result news nor funny. The pattern has been happening with the environment for decades.

I suggest we should use it as motivation for scientists and doctors to learn leadership skills, recognizing that humans don't just respond to facts and figures. Like it or not, we respond to stories, images, community, personality, and so on. We aren't likely going to lead Trump to learn science so if we want science in our leadership, we'll have to take the initiative.