Indictment of Trump and a Warning: 90% of US Coronavirus Deaths Could Have Been Prevented With Swift
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Wednesday, April 15, 2020
by Common Dreams
Eight Republican governors still have not issued statewide stay-at-home orders as deaths in the U.S. top 26,000.
by Julia Conley, staff writer
A social distancing sign is seen in McCarren Park in Brooklyn, New York during the coronavirus pandemic on April 14, 2020. (Photo: Michael Nagle/Xinhua via Getty)
New research published Wednesday revealed that the vast majority, as much as 90%, of U.S. deaths from the coronavirus outbreak could have been avoided if strict social distancing measures were imposed just two weeks earlier—the latest damning rebuke of President Donald Trump's mismanagement of the crisis and a warning to those still skeptical of the restrictions.
Britta Jewell and Nicholas Jewell, epidemiologists at Imperial College and University of California, Berkeley, wrote in a New York Times op-ed that an estimated 90% of deaths from the coronavirus may have been avoided if the U.S. government had called for schools to close and Americans to avoid gatherings of more than 10 people by March 2, when 11 people in the U.S. had died of the disease.
Instead, the White House waited until March 16 to do so. After the social distancing order, the number of cases and deaths began to rise rapidly across the country, now topping 26,000 just a month later.
Ordering Americans to stay home as much as possible and calling for businesses to close even one week later, the epidemiologists estimate, would have cut deaths by about 60%, the epidemiologists said.
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