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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRoughly 40% of the USA's coronavirus deaths could have been prevented, new study says
About 40% of the nations coronavirus deaths could have been prevented if the United States average death rate matched other industrialized nations, a new Lancet Commission report has found.
While the Lancet Commission on Public Policy and Health in the Trump Era faulted former President Donald Trumps inept and insufficient response to COVID-19, its report said roots of the nations poor health outcomes are much deeper.
Commission co-chairs Dr. Steffie Woolhandler and Dr. David Himmelstein, professors at the City University of New York's Hunter College and longtime advocates for a single-payer health system such as "Medicare for All," said the report, published Thursday, underscores decades of health, economic and social policies that have accelerated the nations disparities.
The report found U.S. life expectancy began trailing other industrialized nations four decades ago. In 2018, two years before the pandemic, the report said 461,000 fewer Americans would have died if U.S. mortality rates matched other Group of Seven nations: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United Kingdom.
https://news.yahoo.com/us-ailing-lancet-commission-blasts-050121470.html
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(25,980 posts)Gothmog
(145,231 posts)trump screwed up. If trump had taken the steps that other nations have taken, a large number of deaths could have been avoided