GET ME REWRITE: India, a case study in what happens when a country follows a sustained Trumpian response to the pandemic

 

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New York Times, 5/1/2021

Sound famiiar?  His Covid-19 task force didn’t meet for months. His health minister assured the public in March that India had reached the pandemic’s “endgame.” A few weeks before that, Prime Minister Narendra Modi boasted to global leaders that his nation had triumphed over the coronavirus. 

India “saved humanity from a big disaster by containing corona effectively,” Mr. Modi told a virtual gathering at the World Economic Forum in late January, three tricolor Indian flags displayed in the background. 

Now, a second wave has made India the worst-hit country in the world.

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Covid-19 exposed populist leaders like Modi and Trump.  (CNN, 4/26/2021)

Another case study:
Brazil.  (4/24/2021)