More Americans have died of COVID under Biden than Trump: Johns Hopkins

More Americans have died of COVID under Biden than Trump: Johns Hopkins
By Sean Salai - The Washington Times - Friday, October 8, 2021

More Americans have died from COVID-19 during President Biden‘s first nine months in office than during the first nine months of the pandemic under Donald Trump’s presidency, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.

Despite widely available vaccines and Mr. Biden‘s pledge to handle the coronavirus better than his predecessor after taking office Jan. 20, Johns Hopkins’ Coronavirus Research Center reported that, as of Wednesday afternoon, 353,000 Americans had died this year. That surpassed the 352,000 who died from March 2020, when the pandemic started, to December, when the Food and Drug Administration first gave emergency authorization for vaccines.

In a congressional briefing Wednesday, officials with the Coronavirus Research Center said that although delta variant cases and hospitalizations have declined for several weeks, vaccine hesitancy continues and testing has lagged.

“So I would say the simple strategies are, first, to listen to what the concerns are and try as best as possible to understand them,” said Dr. Bill Moss, the center’s vaccinology lead. “If it’s due to misinformation or disinformation, having the right messenger convey that information to the target audience is really critical, and that’s a person who the community or individual trusts, whether that’s a religious leader or a celebrity or sports figure.”

Some Republicans and conservatives on Twitter this week have blamed Mr. Biden for the increase in deaths.

Lavern Spicer, a Republican in Miami-Dade County who lost Florida’s 24th Congressional District race to Democratic Rep. Frederica Wilson last year, wrote in a Friday tweet: “Why are Covid deaths higher this year under Biden and with a vaccine, than they were last year under Trump and with no vaccine?”

Conservative talk show host Clay Travis wrote in a tweet on Wednesday: “Joe Biden ran his entire 2020 campaign from his basement arguing he‘d make the country safe from covid by following the ‘science.’ Yet more Americans have now died of covid in 2021 under his administration than in 2020 under Trump.”

According to Johns Hopkins, the U.S. surpassed 700,000 deaths at the end of last week, a tally that had risen to more than 710,000 deaths by Friday morning.

In a statement on the 700,000-death milestone last week, President Biden said “the astonishing death toll is yet another reminder of just how important it is to get vaccinated.”

But the president has not commented on this week’s reports in several publications that the 2021 death toll had surpassed 2020.

Fox News host Laura Ingraham, posting a screen capture from CNN on Twitter, said in a Thursday tweet that much of the national media has remained silent about this year’s rising death toll, compared to their coverage of deaths under the Trump administration in 2020.

Ms. Ingraham wrote in her tweet: “The Covid death meter crossed 700,000 with Biden in office. Where’s the once-omnipresent CNN death graphic now?

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In Trumps final hours in office, after a year of presidential denials of reality and responsibility, the pandemic’s U.S. death toll has eclipsed 400,000. And the loss of lives is accelerating.

“This is just one step on an ominous path of fatalities,” said Dr. Irwin Redlener, director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia University and one of many public health experts who contend the Trump administration’s handling of the crisis led to thousands of avoidable deaths.

“Everything about how it’s been managed has been -
infused with incompetence and dishonesty, and we’re paying a heavy price,” he said.

“We need to follow the science and the 400,000th death is shameful,” said Cliff Daniels, chief strategy officer for Methodist Hospital of Southern California, near Los Angeles. With its morgue full, the hospital has parked a refrigerated truck outside to hold the bodies of COVID-19 victims until funeral homes can retrieve them.

“It’s so incredibly, unimaginably sad that so many people have died
that could have been avoided,” he said.

The U.S. accounted for nearly 1 of every 5 virus deaths reported worldwide, f
ar more than any other country despite its great wealth and medical resources.resources.

Trump claimed he was smarter than the scientists
and belittled experts like Dr. Anthony Fauci,
the government’s top authority on infectious diseases.

“Why would trump bench the CDC, the greatest fighting force of infectious disease in the world.
Why would you call Tony Fauci a disaster?”
asked Dr. Howard Markel, a medical historian at the University of Michigan.
“It just doesn’t make sense.”

So-- before trump left the white house he cleared America of
an extraordinary amount of people
, with the highest death total of the world-
making room for all the immigrants.
Plenty of room for them, now.

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