An analyst from TD securities expressed a similar possibility in a note stating, "While one could argue that the news is an unequivocal positive for Biden, we don't think it is so straightforward. Other world leaders such as [UK Prime Minister Boris] Johnson and [Brazilian President Jair] Bolsonaro got a significant boost in their approval ratings after they got COVID."
Boston University School of Public Health dean Sandro Galea has attributed the historically tight secrecy around a president’s health to a demand by the public that leaders achieve an impossible health standard. Galea told Bloomberg in 2018 the standard “doesn’t give them the latitude to disclose.” On Friday, Galea told Yahoo Finance, ”I think given his position that there is a real responsibility to disclose insofar as it affects his capacity to execute the duties of his office. But beyond that, I think, ultimately, it is an issue of health privacy which extends to the president as much as to anybody.