US virus death toll tops 400,000 in Trump's final hours

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The US death toll from the coronavirus eclipsed 400,000 today. 9News

, whose handling of the crisis has been judged by public health experts a singular failure.

The running total of lives lost, as compiled by Johns Hopkins University, is nearly equal to the number of Americans killed in World II.US President Donald Trump listens during a meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White HouseIt is equivalent to the sea of humanity that was at Woodstock in 1969. It is just short of the estimated 409,000 Americans who died in 2019 of strokes, Alzheimer’s, diabetes, flu and pneumonia combined.

And the virus isn't finished with the US by any means, even with the arrival of the vaccines that could finally vanquish the outbreak: A widely cited model by the University of Washington projects the death toll will reach nearly 567,000 by May 1. While the Trump administration has been credited with Operation Warp Speed, the crash program to develop and distribute coronavirus vaccines, Mr Trump has repeatedly downplayed the threat, mocked masks, railed against lockdowns, promoted unproven and unsafe treatments, undercut scientific experts and expressed scant compassion for the victims.The White House defended the administration.

 

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I believe many of them were Trump’s supporters.

He ridiculed POWs & the disabled, kidnapped children, executed as many in last 6 months as USA would have done in 200 years, increased the debt by 400%, increased the rape %, boasted about sexual assault, banned minorities, pardoned child killers, I will remember the death mostly

When Joe Biden is in office we can blame him for 500000 deaths.

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