The first reported coronavirus-related fatality in the United States was on February 29.

Not even three full months later, our country has surpassed 100,000 confirmed COVID-19 deaths.

That’s far more than in any other country on the planet.

And — because of factors like limited testing, reporting delays, and differences throughout the country in which fatalities do and do not get attributed to the disease — the actual number of deaths related to the coronavirus is even greater.

It did not have to be this bad.

Since the onset of the pandemic, Donald Trump’s chaotic and incompetent response has fueled the spread of the coronavirus in the U.S. and beyond, causing tens of thousands of preventable deaths.

Dr. Michael Carome, director of Public Citizen’s esteemed Health Research Group, put together a list of 12 ways Trump made the pandemic worse and pushed the death count higher.

Read it here.

Stay safe.

- Robert Weissman, President of Public Citizen

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