(CNN) – The Trump administration’s hesitant reaction to the coronavirus pandemic has resulted in between 130,000 and 210,000 avoidable deaths, according to a report released Thursday through a team of crisis preparedness experts.
Inadequate testing, lack of mandates or rules on national masks, a delayed global reaction, and an absolute mockery of fundamental public aptitude practices through the administration have placed the United States at the most sensitive of global coronavirus deaths, according to Columbia University’s report. The Earth Institute’s National Disaster Preparedness Center was found.
“We estimate that at least 130,000 deaths and up to 210,000 may have been prevented through past political interventions and more powerful federal coordination and leadership,” the report says.
“Even with the recent dramatic emergence of new waves of COVID-19 around the world, the U. S. government’s abject policy mess is a mess. But it’s not the first time And crisis messages persist, deaths in the United States have remained disproportionately leading the pandemic compared to other countries with the highest mortality. rates,” he adds.
“America’s inability to mitigate the pandemic is striking compared to the reaction of high-income countries such as South Korea, Japan, Australia, Germany, France, and Canada, as well as low- and middle-income countries. . Thailand, Pakistan, Honduras and Malaysia. All these countries have been more successful in protecting their populations from the effect of coronavirus”.
According to Johns Hopkins University, the United States has recorded more than 8. 3 million coronaviruses and more than 222,000 deaths.
“Knowledge shows that a significant amount of lives could have been stored if Trump’s management had acted on the recommendation of the clinical network and public health,” said Dr. Irwin Redlener, founding director of the National Disaster Preparedness Center at Columbia. . ” As the country faces a momentary wave of this virus, we will have to hold leaders accountable. The magnitude of the losses, caused by a disorganized response, will have devastating and lasting consequences for millions of American families.
Measured through deaths of 100,000 inhabitants, the report estimates that the mortality rate in the United States is 50 times higher than Japan’s and more than twice that of Canada. “Although the United States and South Korea showed their first case of coronavirus on January 20, South Korea was able to implement a competitive diagnostic testing strategy and isolate inflamed patients, which led to a proportional mortality rate now 78 times lower than that of the United States,” the report reads.
“From the moment the pandemic was first identified, President Trump and his team minimized the crisis and ignored the fundamental and widely known rules of public aptitude to curb the spread of COVID-19,” said Jeffrey Sachs, Columbia’s professor of policies and fitness control.
“To prevent the ongoing epidemic in the United States, there is an urgent desire to review available data, identify failures, denounce the inexorable misinformation of management, and hold Trump’s management accountable for their inability to stop the spread of the virus and the more than 200,000 lives that have been unnecessarily lost. “
The studies compare America’s reaction to other countries’ policies. If the United States had followed Australia’s policies and protocols, only 11,699 more people could have died, according to the report.
Following Japan’s policy would have led to 4,315 deaths in the United States, Columbia’s team estimated. Even France did more and if the United States had followed France’s example, 162,240 Americans would have died, about 60,000 less than the existing total.