The former White House coronavirus response coordinator estimated that there would have been 30 to 40 percent fewer deaths if Team Trump had focused on saving people’s lives.
And while no moment in his presidency would have been an ideal time for the pandemic, according toM.D., the timing of the COVID crisis was extra unfortunate given that it coincided with the 2020 election, which Team Trump was apparently more focused on than saving people‘s lives. How unfortunate? 130,000-people-would-have-been-alive-today unfortunate.
More than 130,000 American lives could have been saved with swifter action and better coordinated public health messages after the virus’s first wave, Birx told investigators. “I believe if we had fully implemented the mask mandates, the reduction in indoor dining, the getting friends and family to understand the risk of gathering in private homes, and we had increased testing, that we probably could have decreased fatalities into the 30-percent-less to 40-percent-less range,” Birx said.
Birx is not the first former Trump official to note that politics took precedence over fighting COVID-19, the
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