The death toll in the US from the coronavirus eclipsed 400,000 on Tuesday, in the declining hours for President Donald Trump, whose crisis management was considered by public health experts a singular failure.
The total number of lives lost, compiled by Johns Hopkins University, is almost equal to the number of Americans killed in World II. It’s about the population of Tulsa, Oklahoma; Tampa, Florida; or New Orleans. It is equivalent to the sea of humanity that was at Woodstock in 1969.
There are just over 409,000 Americans who died in 2019 due to stroke, Alzheimer’s, diabetes, flu and pneumonia combined.
And the virus is not over with the United States in any way, even with the arrival of vaccines that could eventually overcome the outbreak: a large model cited by the University of Washington estimates that the death toll will reach nearly 567,000 by May 1.
While the Trump administration has been credited with Operation Warp Speed, the crash program for the development and distribution of coronavirus vaccines, Trump has repeatedly downplayed the threat, mocked masks, rejected blockades, promoted unproven and unsafe treatments, experts said. scientific and expressed little compassion for the victims.
Even his own fight with COVID-19 seemed to leave him unchanged.
The White House defended the administration.
“We are saddened by all the lives lost in this pandemic and, thanks to the president’s leadership, Operation Warp Speed has led to the development of safe and effective vaccines in record time, which many have said will never happen,” he said. White House Judd Deere. .
President-elect Joe Biden takes office on Wednesday.
The nation reached 400,000 stages in just under a year. The first known deaths from the virus in the United States occurred in early February 2020, both in Santa Clara County, California.
While the number is based on figures provided by government agencies around the world, the actual number of deaths is believed to be significantly higher, in part due to inadequate testing and cases incorrectly assigned to other causes in time.
It took four months to reach the first 100,000 dead. It took a little over a month to go from 300,000 to 400,000.