Which is the PM role in this time of "recovery plans"?

How about the old, good lessons learned that can be applied in this situation.
What we experience is not the first pandemic that the world faces. Some analysis of what was good, what was bad or could have been done differently from the past ones? Assess the current life style, environmental factors and come up with good list of measures. Very important - define the risks and measures. I am especially missing the risk assessment - may be it is done, but not advertised. Transparent reports - meaning reliable data is very important to draw conclusions and measures.

All of these are well known, good project management good practices that can be applied.

Covid-19 has shown the lack of crisis management skills from the majority of political leaders who are in principle elected to support and create laws or policies that govern the land and, by extension, its people.

They underestimated the risk. They provided confusing information. They changed key messages in a short time span. And they are bond to economical interests that influence their decisions. To top things off, the European Union has failed to provide a unanimous response to the virus. The virus is global, why the response not?

The execution of a number of projects that were proposed by different insitutions acrosss the globe a few years ago in order to protect the world against this pandemic could have likely helped in mitigating the risk. At the present moment, a PM adds limited value in solving the issue. I doubt that PMI is receiving thousands of calls requesting PMs to fight the crisis. Now it is the turn of science, and it should be like this.