Trump called 'demented' after blaming 'blue states' for coronavirus death toll - ABC News

Trump suggested taking 'blue states out' in assessing the country's success.....
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-called-demented-blaming-blue-states-coronavirus-death/story

GOP uses debunked theory to downplay COVID-19 death toll | TheHill

Top Republicans are seeking to downplay the heavy toll of the coronavirus, in part by pointing to a conspiracy theory that the number of deaths is much lower. President Trump, along with Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) and Rep. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.), who are both in competitive Senate races, have all pointed in recent days to the widely debunked theory that COVID-19 deaths in the United States total just 10,000 instead of the more than 180,000 recorded by health officials. ...
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/515227-gop-uses-debunked-theory-to-downplay-covid-19-death-toll

Coronavirus death toll 'acceptable,' 57% of Republicans say in poll

Americans view the severity of the coronavirus pandemic and the effectiveness of the government's response through a very partisan lens, a CBS News/YouGov poll released Sunday found. More than 176,000 people in the U.S. have died from COVID-19. According to the poll, a 57% majority of registered Republican voters consider that number "acceptable" when "evaluating the U.S. efforts against the coronavirus pandemic," compared with 31% of voters overall. Ninety percent of Democrats and 67% of independents said the death toll was "unacceptable." https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/08/23/republicans-coronavirus-deaths-poll/3424673001/

Confused Trump can't understand how many Americans are dying of coronavirus in shocking interview

Several of the moments in Donald Trump’s interview with Jonathan Swan of Axios have gone viral for good reason, but the extended clip where the two men argue about how well the U.S. is doing when it comes to coronavirus cases is especially jaw-dropping—and informative. As Swan presses Trump on the terrible outcomes in the U.S., we get to to see how Trump’s mind works, beat by beat. It is, of course, terrifying. ....
https://www.dailykos.com/story/2020/8/4/1966399/-Trump-says-You-can-t-do-that-as-reporter-tries-to-talk-about-number-of-COVID-19-deaths

Fauci says US death toll 'going to be very disturbing' and fears 100,000 daily cases

Dr Anthony Fauci, the top US infectious disease expert, has said the country could see 100,000 new coronavirus cases daily unless action is taken to reverse the epidemic. Fauci warned that the US is “going in the wrong direction” over handling the coronavirus, and said the death toll “is going to be very disturbing”. ....
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/30/coronavirus-fauci-senate-states-reverse-reopening

100,000 Accomplished | The Daily Show

100,000. Congratulations to President Trump on a true success story.
https://youtu.be/XsMBAgrrbzU

Social distancing a week earlier could have saved 36,000 US lives, study finds

Had the US begun social distancing just one week earlier, the country would have prevented 36,000 deaths through early May, according to researchers at Columbia University.  Had action been taken two weeks earlier, by 1 March, 54,000 fewer Americans would have died of the virus, the researchers determined.....
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/21/us-social-distancing-lives-lost-coronavirus-lockdown-study

'All the psychoses of US history': how America is victim-blaming the coronavirus dead

Why do Americans represent less than 5% of the world’s population but nearly a third of the known coronavirus death toll? Not because of government incompetence, the Trump administration is arguing, but because Americans are very unhealthy.....
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/21/all-the-psychoses-of-us-history-how-america-is-victim-blaming-the-coronavirus-dead

"29 Days: America's Lost Month" -- Remedy PAC

By February, it was clear that COVID-19 would kill many Americans. It was clear to everyone - except Donald Trump. We've lost 90,000 lives to Trump's incompetence. They can't vote. Will you? #VoteForYourLife
https://remedypac.com/ https://youtu.be/PqzYpPtsn6g

Florida Gov. DeSantis accused of changing COVID-19 numbers to make reopening seem more reasonable

From the beginning of the novel coronavirus story, there have been legitimate concerns over whether China was accurately reporting its number of cases or its rate of deaths. In Russia, what appears to be an astonishingly low COVID-19 mortality rate is made more than a little suspect by the way that defenestration remains at the top of that nation’s charts. But you don’t have to travel around the world to find inaccurate reporting on either cases or deaths related to COVID-19. Georgia has been repeatedly rearranging—or simply altering—reported numbers to make it seem as if things there are getting better. (They’re not.) For weeks, Florida has suspended the reporting of deaths by medical examiners, even as those examiners complain that the state tally doesn’t match their information.....
https://www.dailykos.com/story/2020/5/20/1946377/-Florida-Gov-DeSantis-accused-of-changing-COVID-19-numbers-to-make-reopening-seem-more-reasonable

Stay-at-home orders saved hundreds of thousands, report finds | TheHill

A new analysis says nearly 250,000 people in the nation's 30 largest cities are alive today because of strict stay-at-home orders issued by local and state governments. The report, from the Urban Health Collaborative at the Dornsife School of Public Health at Drexel University, found the stay-at-home orders likely reduced the number of coronavirus deaths by 232,878 and prevented 2.1 million people from requiring hospitalization.
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/498303-stay-at-home-orders-saved-hundreds-of-thousands-report-finds

America is dying to reelect Trump | TheHill

We should have seen it coming. This week, several media outlets reported that the Trump administration was pushing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to revise coronavirus fatalities downward. The White House wanted to exclude from the totals individuals who did not have confirmed lab results for COVID-19 but were presumed to be positive and those for whom the coronavirus may not have been the direct cause of death. The next step, we can assume, will be a tweet by President Trump declaring that the death count (tabulated by the CDC) is “fake news,” part of a conspiracy by Democrats and the Deep State to defeat him in November by keeping the economy on its knees.
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/498170-america-is-dying-to-reelect-trump

Republicans Are Sick Of Dr. Fauci Reminding Them Of How Many People Could Get Sick

Senate Republicans like Rand Paul are following Donald Trump's lead and trying to sew skepticism of Dr. Anthony Fauci's advice as it relates to reopening the economy.
https://youtu.be/xjCElooEE3o

There Are Sensible Ways to Reopen. Then There's the US's Way | Time

This brutal spring, the U.S. faces two great crises. Over the past 14 weeks, 84,000 Americans have died of COVID-19. That’s 28 times the death toll of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, more than the U.S. combat deaths in the Vietnam War, and one-quarter of the total global casualties from the coronavirus pandemic. ....
https://time.com/5836607/reopening-risks-coronavirus/

Under Trump, American exceptionalism means poverty, misery and death

No other advanced nation denies healthcare and work protections, or loosens lockdown while fatalities mount
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/may/10/donald-trump-covid-19-coronavirus-us-healthcare-unemployment

The numbers reveal how much Trump’s dithering worsened the COVID-19 crisis – Raw Story

Thousands continue to die each day in the United States from COVID-19, and there’s no sign yet that the virus will fully retreat anytime soon. But new analysis from two epidemiologists published in the New York Times on Thursday showed that it didn’t have to be this way. Had the country acted sooner, it could have dramatically decreased the death toll.
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/04/the-numbers-reveal-how-much-trumps-dithering-worsened-the-covid-19-crisis/

Fauci dismisses 'conspiracy theory' of overstated US Covid-19 death toll

Anthony Fauci, the top US infectious diseases expert, has warned that baseless “conspiracy theories” are swirling around the coronavirus crisis following claims that America’s official death toll from Covid-19 has been overstated.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/09/coronavirus-conspiracy-theory-death-overcount-anthony-fauci

Trump supporters are already questioning coronavirus death toll to make the president look good – Raw Story

Some prominent Trump-supporting media personalities are already trying to defend the president’s response to the coronavirus pandemic by questioning the official number of people who have died after being infected. As documented by Media Matters researcher Jason Campbell, right-wing radio host Mark Levin this week suggested that the official coronavirus body count tallies shouldn’t be taken at face value because there’s no way of knowing whether someone who died shortly after getting infected really died from the virus....
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/03/trump-supporters-are-already-questioning-coronavirus-death-toll-to-make-the-president-look-good/

Legislators demand Trump apologize for 'grossly inaccurate, callous' remarks on Puerto Rico deaths - Daily Kos

Over 130 legislators, including the first Puerto Rican woman elected to the House of Representatives, are calling on Donald Trump to apologize for his refusal to accept the hurricane death toll in Puerto Rico, calling his remarks "grossly inaccurate, callous, embarrassing and beneath the dignity of the Office of the President of the United States," Congress member Nydia Velázquez of New York, Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, and other legislators said in a letter. ....
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1797218