Forty Percent of America's Coronavirus Deaths Were Avoidable: Lancet Study

[babylonsister]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/forty-percent-of-americas-coronavirus-deaths-were-avoidable-lancet-study-finds?ref=home

Forty Percent of America’s Coronavirus Deaths Were Avoidable: Lancet Study

‘INEPT AND INSUFFICIENT’
Jamie Ross
Reporter
Published Feb. 11, 2021 5:57AM ET
Reuters/Erin Scott

Around 40 percent of the Americans who have been killed by COVID-19 might have lived if better political decisions had been made before and during the pandemic, according to a new Lancet study. The paper, titled Public Policy and Health in the Trump Era, rips into former President Donald Trump, saying he “brought misfortune to the USA and the planet.” It describes Trump’s response to COVID as “inept and insufficient,” though it says the roots of the nation’s public-health problems go much deeper. Mary Bassett, a Lancet commission member and director of Harvard’s FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, told The Guardian: “The U.S. has fared so badly with this pandemic, but the bungling can’t be attributed only to Mr. Trump, it also has to do with these societal failures.” The paper estimates that, had America’s virus death toll matched up with the rates in other high-income G-7 countries, some 40 percent of deaths could have been avoided. Almost 470,000 Americans have died so far.

[Arkansas Granny]

1. If there had been a national response that depended on science, not politics, we would not have

the infection rate and death toll that we have right now.

[PJMcK]

4. It wasn't politics

It was Trump's fragile ego.

The lack of a federal response to the pandemic is entirely Trump's fault.

There could have been an Article of Impeachment for that, too.

[BigmanPigman]

6. Can we still charge him for his Covid crimes?

If our govt won't do it can there be a lawsuit from US citizens or perhaps a crime against humanity to be tried in The Hague?

[bronxiteforever]

2. Kick and recommend.

[moondust]

3. So was it...

Incompetence?

Negligent homicide?

Deliberate "thinning the herd"/mass murder?

Other?

[Hekate]

5. Sheer malice cannot be ruled out as a component, both with Trump and Jared

Jared “don’t send supplies to blue states” Kushner

[dalton99a]

7. Kick

[Hermit-The-Prog]

8. That number is lowballed. With a proper response, more like 90% would have been saved.

We did not lock down at the beginning. We did not test, trace, and isolate.

trump and all of his enablers and the RW propaganda machine spread disinformation throughout the population.

It was the perfect storm to create the horror we're in.