This Forbes article suggests that countries with female leaders seem to do better in response to COVID-19. https://www.forbes.com/sites/avivahwittenbergcox/2020/04/13/what-do-countries-with-the-best-coronavirus-reponses-have-in-common-women-leaders/

I scraped some pandemic statistics for different countries along with the gender of each country's leader: No significant gender effects at all.

This might seem like a pretty pointless analysis, but I think it is more important now than ever to keep our speculations, opinions, and predictions about coronavirus as science-based and data-driven as possible.

And a small update: What about among only the 62 most developed countries (as per Human Development Index; list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developed_country)? Still not stat sig.