"Trump’s covid-19 inaction killed Americans. When first proposed this piece to us a couple days ago, the count was at 36k. "The site displays both the number of people who have died in the country from Covid-19 and an estimate of that portion whose lives would have been saved had the president and his administration acted just one week earlier."
"To let the numbers speak for themselves, my team and I have constructed an online counter at, estimating the toll of the White House's delayed response," he added. "Just as the names of fallen soldiers are etched on memorials to remind us of the cost of war, quantifying the lives lost to the president's delayed coronavirus response would serve a vital public function." "This pandemic is ongoing, and the lives already unnecessarily lost demand we seek more responsible crisis leadership," Jarecki wrote. In an op-ed published by the Washington Post, Jarecki further explained the motivation for the death clock, how the figure displayed at the top of the website is calculated, and his hope that the project will help spark demands for "more responsive and responsible leadership" amidst this global crisis. Epidemiologists now estimate that, had mitigation measures been implemented one week earlier, 60% of American Covid-19 deaths would have been avoided.
President Trump declined to act until March 16th. Anthony Fauci, " there was a lot of pushback" to this advice. In January 2020, the Trump administration was advised that immediate action was required to stop the spread of Covid-19. Covid-19 deaths due to POTUS inaction" is an explanation: Below large red numbers representing the "estimated portion U.S. "The displays both the number of people who have died in the country from Covid-19 and an estimate of that portion whose lives would have been saved had the president and his administration acted just one week earlier."Īs of press time, the clock's count was 43,814. Drawing inspiration from the billboard-sized National Debt Clock in New York City, American filmmaker and author Eugene Jarecki on Wednesday launched an online " Trump Death Clock" to measure the cost in human lives of President Donald Trump and his administration's "reckless handling" of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
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