How many needless Covid-19 deaths were caused by delays in responding? Most of them

[Quixote1818]

By ISAAC SEBENIUS and JAMES K. SEBENIUS JUNE 2020

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Due to exponential viral spread, our delay in action was devastating. In the wake of the U.S. response, 117,858 Americans died in the four months following the first 15 confirmed cases. After an equivalent period, Germany suffered only 8,863 casualties. Scaling up the German population of 83.7 million to America’s 331 million, a U.S.-sized Germany would have suffered 35,049 Covid-19 deaths. So if the U.S. had acted as effectively as Germany, 70% of U.S. coronavirus deaths might have been prevented.

Seventy percent, though, is the most conservative estimate. Scaled-up versions of South Korea, Australia, and Singapore would have experienced 1,758, 1,324, and 1,358 deaths, respectively, in the four months after 15 cases were confirmed in each country. Had we handled the coronavirus as effectively as any of these three countries, roughly 99% of the 117,858 U.S. Covid-19 deaths might have been averted.

More: https://www.statnews.com/2020/06/19/faster-response-prevented-most-us-covid-19-deaths/

[Doodley]

1. But Trump says he has saved "millions of lives."

[2naSalit]

2. The vast majority of them. ...nt

[Squinch]

3. We had a working CDC and disease response team when Ebola hit our shores. How many people got that?