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2021 02 23 Covid 19 TotalUSADeaths 800w350h

Feb. 23, 2020: Trump: “We have it very much under control in this country.”

April 16, 2020: Trump: "Country has made great progress” fighting Covid-19 pandemic.

April 30, 2020: Jared Kushner: Administration’s response is a “great success story.”

May 11, 2020 Trump: “We have met the moment and we have prevailed.”

2/11/2021 US could have averted 40% of Covid deaths, says panel examining Trump's policies, by Amanda Holpuch, The Guardian U.S.

2/21/2021 More Americans have died from Covid-19 than on the battlefields of the world wars and the Vietnam War combined, Julie Bosman, The New York Times

The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, an independent global health research center at the University of Washington, has projected that the nation could reach more than 614,000 deaths by June 1. Factors like how well people adhere to guidelines like mask-wearing and social distancing, plus the speed of vaccinations, could affect that estimate.

In New York City, more than 28,000 people have died of the virus — or one in 295 people. In Los Angeles County, which has lost nearly 20,000 people to Covid-19, about one in 500 people has died of the virus. In Lamb County, Texas, where 13,000 people live scattered on a sprawling expanse of 1,000 square miles, one in 163 people has died of the virus.

The 1918 influenza pandemic is estimated to have killed about 675,000 Americans, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, when the country’s population was a third of what it is now. But it also happened at a time when influenza vaccines, antibiotics, mechanical ventilation and other medical tools did not exist yet.