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meadowlander

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Sat Jul 20, 2024, 08:36 PM
Jul 2024

Excess deaths in the US in the first two years of Covid according to the NIH were 1,150,000ish.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9094106/

Some of those would have occurred regardless but if the US had adopted the same policies as New Zealand it could have cut that number to 1/3 (deaths per capita in the US 3,642, deaths per capita in NZ 1,163.)

So if you take the conservative estimate that 350,000 people probably would have died regardless (recognizing that the US isn't an island and is harder to lock down and control immigration to and from), then that leaves you with 800,000 people who died as a direct result of Trump's incompetent policies and messaging.

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