A careful study by Columbia University says that about 36,000 Americans died because the federal government's failure to promptly address the pandemic. So Trump has responsibility for those deaths at least.
Almost 36,000 U.S. coronavirus deaths could have been avoided if social distancing began a week earlier, study finds
It didn't take a genius to figure out that ignoring the pandemic was going to kill people. He was warned by his own people about that. Pointedly and repeatedly.
For the those who weren't paying attention ...
Trump Was Warned About the Coronavirus More Than a Dozen Times In Daily Intel Briefings
Since the coronavirus outbreak exploded in the U.S., President Donald Trump has liked to portray the surging pandemic as a totally shocking problem that no one could have seen coming. “It snuck up on us,” Trump said on March 18, calling the virus “a very unforeseen thing.” It has now become very clear, of course, that the president and his administration were not in any way caught off-guard by the pandemic, receiving multiple heads-up about the looming catastrophe as the virus starting its spread from such sources as the World Health Organization, multiple federal agencies, and even Trump’s own economic adviser. (The administration also decided to ignore a literal step-by-step guide on how to deal with a pandemic from the outgoing Obama administration, along with a September report from White House economists warning about the toll a potential pandemic could take, and urging them to start preparing now.)
Now, the Washington Post reports that warnings about the coronavirus even made their way directly to the Oval Office as part of the president’s daily intelligence briefing...
...intelligence agencies warned Trump about the novel coronavirus in “more than a dozen classified briefings” in January and February, which traced the virus’s spread, China’s downplaying of the threat, and “raised the prospect of dire political and economic consequences.” The warnings came via the President’s Daily Briefing, a daily report controlled by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence that informs the president about significant geopolitical developments and potential security threats. The virus was mentioned in the PDB both through in-depth articles and smaller updates on the latest coronavirus news, and mentions of the coronavirus in the PDB became more frequent by mid-to-late January.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020...briefings-pdb\
COVID-19 is now the third leading cause of death in the United States.
As the coronavirus pandemic continues to hemorrhage 1,000 lives daily in the U.S., COVID-19 now ranks third for cause of death in this country.
The leading causes of death in the U.S. are heart disease and cancer, but COVID-19 is gaining fast, CNN reported Monday.
https://www.nydailynews.com/coronav...0200817-syzr5fuc3na2red3h2l2yxr2g4-story.html
But many COVID-19 deaths are not being reported:
How COVID-19 Is Being Underreported in Most States
https://247wallst.com/special-report/2020/05/27/how-covid-19-is-being-underreported-in-most-states/