Whether he takes responsibility or not - He is responsible for 100s of 1000s of deaths.

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U.S. COVID response could have avoided hundreds of thousand of deaths - research
By Howard Schneider

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States squandered both money and lives in its response to the coronavirus pandemic, and it could have avoided nearly 400,000 deaths with a more effective health strategy and trimmed federal spending by hundreds of billions of dollars while still supporting those who needed it.

That is the conclusion of a group of research papers released at a Brookings Institution conference this week, offering an early and broad start to what will likely be an intense effort in coming years to assess the response to the worst pandemic in a century.

U.S. COVID-19 fatalities could have stayed under 300,000, versus a death toll of 540,000 and rising, if by last May the country had adopted widespread mask, social distancing, and testing protocols while awaiting a vaccine, estimated Andrew Atkeson, economics professor at University of California, Los Angeles.

the rest:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-economy-idUSKBN2BH1DK

[lagomorph777]

1. That estimate is way too generous to Trump.

New Zealand and many other countries kept the death rate to a tiny fraction of ours. Trump deliberately murdered half a million Americans.

[LastDemocratInSC]

3. As of today in New Zealand

there have been about 2,500 Covid cases and 26 deaths. That's due to competent national leadership and an intelligent population that understands the concept of "the common good".

[rampartc]

2. "depraved indifference" can be considered "murder."

[crickets]

4. K&R for visibility.

[moondust]

5. GQP

seems to like seeing Americans die. COVID denial and maskholes, majority of anti-vaxxers, guns-gone-wild insanity, endless wars in the Middle East based on WMD BIG LIES, etc.

Sociopaths and psychopaths.