Leadership to prevent COVID-19: is it the most important mitigation factor?

Affiliations

• ¹ Research & Innovation Centre King Saud Medical City & College of medicine, Alfaisal University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA. Electronic address: zmemish@yahoo.com.
• ² University of Sciences, Techniques, and Technology, Bamako, Mali. Electronic address: ebrahimsh2@gmail.com.
• ³ Department of Pediatrics, King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, King Abdullah Specialist Children's Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Electronic address: ranafk@gmail.com.
• ⁴ Critical Care Department, King Saud Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Electronic address: a_almshal@hotmail.com.
• ⁵ Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA; King Faisal Hospital & Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Electronic address: salqaht1@jhmi.edu.
• ⁶ Critical Care Department, King Saud Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; University of South Carolina, School of Medicine, Columbia, SC, USA. Electronic address: karakitsosdimitrios@gmail.com.