+++ Experts: 130,000-210,000 Covid-19 deaths in the US could have been avoided +++ The Trump administration’s botched response to the pandemic has led to between 130,000 and 210,000 preventable deaths, according to a report from a team of disaster preparedness and public health experts +++ “The United States has turned a global crisis into a devastating tragedy,” read a report released Thursday by researchers at Columbia University +++ “Many of the underlying factors amplifying the pandemic’s deadly impact have existed long before the novel coronavirus first arrived in Washington state on January 20th – a fractured healthcare system, inequitable access to care, and immense health, social and racial disparities among America’s most vulnerable groups,” the researchers noted +++ “Compounding this is an Administration that has publicly denigrated its own public health officials – and science more generally - thereby hamstringing efforts by its vaunted public health service to curb the pandemic’s spread.” +++
