Weren't for Trump, COVID-19 Battle could be won by now.

[Kid Berwyn]

13. Trump as POTUS is guilty of criminal dereliction of duty.

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His actions and inaction are responsible for the deaths of several hundred thousand Americans.

US could have averted 40% of Covid deaths, says panel examining Trump's

The country began the pandemic with a degraded public health infrastructure, leading to more deaths than other high-income countries

Amanda Holpuch
The Guardian, Feb. 11, 2021

The US could have averted 40% of the deaths from Covid-19, had the country’s death rates corresponded with the rates in other high-income G7 countries, according to a Lancet commission tasked with assessing Donald Trump’s health policy record.

Almost 470,000 Americans have died from the coronavirus so far, with the number widely expected to go above half a million in the next few weeks. At the same time some 27 million people in the US have been infected. Both figures are by far the highest in the world.

In seeking to respond to the pandemic, Trump has been widely condemned for not taking the pandemic seriously enough soon enough, spreading conspiracy theories, not encouraging mask wearing and undermining scientists and others seeking to combat the virus’s spread.

Dr Mary T Bassett, a commission member and director of Harvard University’s FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, told the Guardian: “The US 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 … That’s not going to be solved by a vaccine.”

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The commission condemned Trump’s response to Covid, but emphasized that the country entered the pandemic with a degraded public health infrastructure. Between 2002 and 2019, US public health spending fell from 3.21% to 2.45% – approximately half the share of spending in Canada and the UK.

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/feb/10/us-coronavirus-response-donald-trump-health-policy

You are correct, Trump is not alone. But, as President, he failed to do his job to minimize the impact of COVID-19. In fact, he made its impact much worse. That is why I wrote we’d have won the battle, as we’d be much closer to the end of the pandemic today.