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<blockquote data-quote="fishtm2001" data-source="post: 4780288" data-attributes="member: 54375">&quot;According to a new <a href="https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)32545-9/fulltext" target="_blank">Lancet Commission report</a> compiled by an international team of august scientists and public health leaders, some <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/feb/10/us-coronavirus-response-donald-trump-health-policy" target="_blank">40 percent</a> of America’s 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 <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/11/trump-has-been-skipping-white-house-covid-meetings-for-months" target="_blank">five months</a>, since late May. Behind the scenes in the fall, the Trump administration lobbied Congress vigorously to <a href="https://www.statnews.com/2021/01/31/trump-officials-lobbied-to-deny-states-money-for-vaccine-rollout/" target="_blank">block the movement of funds</a> to states for vaccine rollout efforts, leaving them unable to efficiently execute mass immunizations.&quot;Foreign Policy</blockquote>

[QUOTE="fishtm2001, post: 4780288, member: 54375"] "According to a new [URL='https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)32545-9/fulltext']Lancet Commission report[/URL] compiled by an international team of august scientists and public health leaders, some [URL='https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/feb/10/us-coronavirus-response-donald-trump-health-policy']40 percent[/URL] of America’s 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 [URL='https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/11/trump-has-been-skipping-white-house-covid-meetings-for-months']five months[/URL], since late May. Behind the scenes in the fall, the Trump administration lobbied Congress vigorously to [URL='https://www.statnews.com/2021/01/31/trump-officials-lobbied-to-deny-states-money-for-vaccine-rollout/']block the movement of funds[/URL] to states for vaccine rollout efforts, leaving them unable to efficiently execute mass immunizations." Foreign Policy [/QUOTE]

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