A new report from Columbia University on the death of Kovid-19 estimates that hundreds of thousands of Americans died because the response to the epidemic by the United States was a “vague failure,” especially the actions of President Donald Trump. With adequate feedback, the United States could avoid thousands of deaths and countless sufferings, the researchers said.
In an interview with The Daily Beast, Dr. Irwin Redlaner, lead author of the study and founder director of the Disaster Center for Disaster Preparedness, blamed the White House: “We believe this was a monument Scrup. “
In the report, “U.S. In a report entitled “1-0,000-2010,000 Avoidable COVID-1 Deaths and Counts -“, NCDP researchers in Colombia studied the “surprising and disproportionate nature of COVID-19 deaths in the United States.” ”
Researchers in the U.S. No coronavirus responses were compared with six other countries – South Korea, Japan, Australia, Australia, Germany, Canada and France – and found that the US government’s response to the epidemic was inappropriately rated. The U.S. Covid-19 has twice as many deaths as Canada and 50 times as many as Japan. To avoid the deaths of every 100,000 people in each country, the researchers estimated that if it followed the example of a stronger response, the U.S. Ans: Always better than reality.
“If the U.S. adhered to Canadian policies and protocols, only 85,192 U.S. deaths would have occurred, more than 132,500 American deaths would have been avoided.” The researcher wrote that if the U.S. response had reflected Germany, the U.S. Only 38,457 people died in – of which 179,260 died avoidable.
Researchers selected half a dozen countries that had some degree of success in responding to the epidemic.
“We have to make the best of ourselves. We have to be the best, “said Radley. “We have the resources, the economy, the scientific skills to do it right. We are facing a deadly epidemic, and we had a very misguided leadership that chose to wear masks and cleanses of social distance. The president himself became a superspader. There is blood on his hands. ”
The researchers cited a number of well-known but catastrophic factors that killed the U.S. response: inadequate testing, delayed lockdowns, lack of a unified federal response, and failure to order non-medical interventions such as masks and social distance. Researchers have written that American leaders have shown a “failure to model best practices,” especially by wearing masks during public appearances. Although research publications rarely venture into politics, both the scientific American and the New England Journal of Medicine have published editors last month urging the Trump administration to control its epidemic.
“There is confusion, mismanagement and dishonesty, and we are suffering the consequences of misconduct in the office. In general, academic publications are not so clearly political, but this unreliable anti-science administration has created a great tragedy in America. The fact that this death can be avoided is a wonderful feeling, ”Redlaner said.
The coronavirus has killed more than 220,000 people in the United States this year, and more than 8.3 million people have tested positive, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. Public health experts estimate that millions more have contracted the virus but have not received an official diagnosis due to a lack of adequate testing. The death toll from the virus may also be higher than the record.
Public health officials across the country are warning that coronavirus infection is at its third peak and the coming winter could be a particularly brutal time when the flu season arrives. Adding to this bleak forecast, Columbia researchers wrote that the federal government’s “continued mismanagement” of the epidemic showed few signs of improvement: “The failure of U.S. government policies and emergency messages remains.”
The end is nowhere to be seen, according to Redlaner.
“Epidemic fatigue is a bad case among Americans. We want to return to some equality of normalcy, but we never did what we had to do to achieve that state,” he said. “We have delayed the return of normalcy and are protesting against this dishonesty and science that was provoked by the President.”
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