Death toll would be 40% less if not for Donnie's dithering, denial, eschewing of masks and disinformation. 461,000 deaths on Donnie. That's a lotta blood to have on one's hands.
"This is deadly stuff," the president told Woodward in a Feb. 7 conversation, according to the book, which is called Rage. "You just breathe the air and that's how it's passed. And so that's a very tricky one. That's a very delicate one. It's also more deadly than even your strenuous flu."
But at the time, Trump was publicly saying that the virus was less of a concern.
"I wanted to always play it down," Trump told Woodward on March 19. "I still like playing it down, because I don't want to create a panic."
Asked whether he misled the public by downplaying the coronavirus to reduce panic, Trump said, "Well I think if you said 'in order to reduce panic,' perhaps that's so."
The Lancet report is out today, which suggests that former President Trump's policymaking created an excess of "461,100 deaths" - before COVID
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A medical journal compared the number of US COVID-19 deaths — the highest in the world — with the deaths in similarly wealthy countries.
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