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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI accuse Donald J Trump of the crime of pandemicide.
History will show the former U.S. president was staggeringly negligent during the pandemics deadly third wave.BY LAURIE GARRETT | FEBRUARY 18, 2021, 5:00 PM
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Pandemicide is not the outcome of ill-advised, ignorant, or outright stupid budget actions and health messages. I do not even level the charge over Trumps denunciation of mask use and opposition to temporary business and school closures to halt the spread of SARS-CoV-2, encouraging people to liberate states that were implementing tough lockdown regulations.
Rather, the path of pandemicide was paved in pursuit of the presidents reelection and his relentless, all-consuming post-election campaign to refute his opponents victory, claiming election fraud and even theft. Despite the summer surge in COVID-19 infections nationwide, Trump abandoned virtual campaigning in favor of crowded, largely maskless gatherings of his supporters, knowingly risking that each rally would become a superspreader event. According to a study by Stanford University, 18 campaign rallies held between June 20 and Sept. 22, 2020, spawned in excess of 30,000 COVID-19 cases, likely leading to more than 700 deaths. During the same time period, half of Trumps campaign rallies were followed by COVID-19 surges in the counties in which they took place. While Bidens campaign rallies were largely virtual or held in parking areas with participants in their vehicles, Trumps tightly packed, mostly mask-free throngs increased in both number and frequency, further spreading the virus and causing the U.S. governments top COVID-19 response expert, Anthony Fauci, to warn that the president was asking for trouble.
Even after Trump and the first lady contracted COVID-19, compelling emergency treatment that included, in Trumps case, hospitalization at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center and round-the-clock treatment from an army of physicians and nurses, the president refused to regularly don a mask. On the day of his hospital admission, Oct. 2, the United States had cumulatively logged more than 200,000 deaths to COVID-19an undercount, as are all U.S. COVID-19 numbers, but an official data point that would more than double by the Jan. 20 inauguration of Biden. According to a new Lancet Commission report compiled by an international team of august scientists and public health leaders, some 40 percent of Americas COVID-19 death toll during the Trump administration was needless, meaning it could have been averted with available nonmedical interventions.
By the time the election took place, Trump had ignored the pandemic, not attending a single COVID-19 White House meeting for at least five months, since late May. Behind the scenes in the fall, the Trump administration lobbied Congress vigorously to block the movement of funds to states for vaccine rollout efforts, leaving them unable to efficiently execute mass immunizations.
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https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/02/18/trump-is-guilty-of-pandemicide/
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