Fact Check: Have More Americans Died From COVID Under Joe Biden Than Donald Trump?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

The U.S. has hit another grim pandemic-related milestone, reaching 800,000 cumulative COVID-related deaths.

With cases rising again across the country as the Omicron variant of the coronavirus takes hold, politicians, journalists and social media users are taking stock of President Joe Biden's pandemic-handling abilities in his first year.

The Claim

This week, multiple public figures and social media users attempted to directly compare how current and previous administrations fared in the battle against COVID by analyzing the cumulative number of deaths from the virus under each president.







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False.

While the number of deaths from COVID in the U.S. under president Biden is on course to top the death count during the Trump administration, it has not yet done so. Around 379,000 people have died in the U.S. from COVID since January 20, when Biden took over as president, around 45,000 fewer than under Trump.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/fact-check-have-more-americans-died-from-covid-under-joe-biden-than-donald-trump/ar-AAS1Aon

[PortTack]

1. The focus SHOULD be on how many deaths could have been prevented under tfg had he launched

Response at all!!

[kysrsoze]

2. You can only do so much when so many refuse to mask or vaccinate. It's a stupid notion to blame...

Biden for this when so many cultists insisted on doing it to themselves.

[jimfields33]

5. They are just comparing numbers.

[TheRealNorth]

3. Death is what the anti-maskers and anti-vaxers wanted....

So that the media would blame Biden for the deaths.

[Downtown Hound]

4. Morons don't want to wear a mask, don't want to stay home,

don't want to social distance, and don't want to take the free and highly effective vaccines that Biden has made available to them, but sure, somehow it's Biden's fault.

[doc03]

6. I guess that is the whole Republican stratagy, don't get

vaccinated don't wear a mask so we can blame Biden.

[iemanja]

7. NO, we were over 500,000 when Trump left office

[ProfessorGAC]

8. They're Also Comparing 10 Months To 11

The chart indicates the first huge uptick in COVID deaths began in late March/early April of 2020.
TFG was president for under 10 months to hit the 412k.
Biden has been POTUS for 11 months.
So, it's not only false in raw numbers but it's proportionally off by around 7,000 deaths per month greater under the idiot prince.