What do you think has led to the US to have more Covid 19 death cases?

Trump. Your link says it all.

How Dutchess ?

Lack of testing, states refusing to act for a long time, a president denying the problem for months, citizens childishly defying lockdown orders, churches holding mass congregations because they fancy themselves under divine protection, people going to work sick, because they can not afford to stay home, businesses requiring people to work when sick, while refusing to spend anything on increased protective measures.
You even have FEMA literally stealing supply shipments from hospitals that ordered them, with no information given on what happened.
It is a complete shit show.

Bozo saying it was a Democratic HOAX multiple time !!

He’s not leader; he is a spin doctor. After the horrible things happen he runs around blames anybody still standing !

Pence will be sorry he got to be in charge for fighting COVID-19 !!!!! Trump tanked before COVID-19 got to USA.

Read the CNN article you linked to in your details @Haunting_Tourist.

The # of deaths is meaningless without taking into consideration the relative size of the population and infection rates. The real number is the death:infection ratio, and outside of testing the #hospitalized:population ratio Those speak volumes.
I’m pretty well ignoring anything coming out of CNN. Fox news used to be a laughing stock of partisan politics, it’s CNN now.

Outside of the spin, the response here in the states has been a little on the late side but otherwise exceptional considering the circumstances. The big lie I keep seeing repeated here though is the wide spread use of testing which is not the case. Almost nobody is getting tested so the ratios above are the only meaningful metrics we have to gauge our response. Until testing is widely available it’s not safe for us to open the economy back up. We’ll see how that’s handled.

Look at the #deaths per 1M pop The USA has done pretty well keeping resources at the ready and distributed compared to most others. You have to also consider the infection rate which is not listed.

AMERICA FIRST !! It’s the Trump philosophy that America needs to be the leader in everything. So we’re the leader in Corona cases. Republicans are thrilled.

March 1st-“There is no reason for undue anxiety — the general risk remains low in New York. We are diligently managing this situation and will continue to provide information as it becomes available,” Cuomo said in a statement.

Local health authorities “have been in a state of high alert for weeks, and are fully prepared to respond,” De Blasio said in a statement late Sunday.

https://apnews.com/42dcd4edafb7ca57767a58b3e82a3375

What was amazing to me, @KNOWITALL, was how fast everything changed in my area of southern NY. As some may remember, I work not far from NYC and from the original outbreak area of New Rochelle NY.

As of Monday night, March 9, I was out to dinner with some friends in CT. Tuesday March 10, a good friend called me, in a panic because the neighbor of the first positive case in New Rochelle is her coworker. By the following week, there was nothing going on for St. Patricks Day and people were starting to talk about working from home. By Thursday, March 19, I was working from home. By that time, all schools in the area, restaurants, gyms churches, etc. were closed. I was saying to another mom that it was astounding how within a week, everything closed. It all happened so fast.

My birthday was the end of the week when we had the first positive case, and friends made plans to take me out the third week of March. My suggestion to them was let’s postpone it because of social distancing and everything. I figured it would be a relief to them in case they felt obligated. One of them was pushing the issue and wanted to keep the dinner date, and her reasoning was that a lot of things would be closed in April. We ended up not going, because the decision was made for us by the County which closed everything down by the middle of the week of March 16th.

I was guessing at the time (when school first closed) that schools were going to be closed for the remainder of the school year, which is unprecedented. My guess now is that there won’t be camps, for those parents who are planning to send their kids to camp.

I believe the Governor’s statement was to not incite panic, as you know politicians try to keep the populace calm so people don’t go nuts. I heard the reason why they never have said school would be closed for the remainder of the school year is that the parents would flip out. DiBlasio is making the decision ASAP, with the governor, and I believe the local schools will follow suit. I do believe the decision has already been made but they’re just not saying it.

Fox is the right’s fake news much like CNN is the left’s fake news. Neither is worth reading

@jca2 It’s pretty crazy, I’m glad you’re okay!!

Not inciting panic is one thing, but as of March 1st, we’d seen the devastation around the world. 88,000 global cases on every continent except Antarctica. Two deaths had occurred.

The WHO was on the highest risk level possible by March 1st.

This statement on March 1st was irresponsible in one of our most dense populations in the US.

I mean when we’re talking 61% of deaths being black and hispanic, it’s devastating.

I’m surprised some Democrat isn’t calling this Trumps ethnic cleansing yet.

I just googled it to see his full statement, and then I found a timeline of his responses to the virus. I see that just two days later, March 3, he authorized 40 million in emergency money to prepare. Here’s the timeline: https://abcnews.go.com/US/timeline-cuomos-trumps-responses-coronavirus-outbreak/story?id=69914641

I couldn’t open the article, but my guess is America has three times the cases than reported. That would make the death rate fairly low.

I do think we could have had much much fewer cases and deaths if America had really clamped down on travel and had much much more testing back in January. We possibly could have really controlled the spread. I don’t know if the public would have gone along with it. We would have closed down parts of the economy, but very minor, just in some hot spots. Completely shut those cities down from contact with other parts of the world and country. Much much stricter than what we are doing now, but only in localized spots.

Edit: re testing. My governor said yesterday 1 in 85 people in South Florida have been tested (that is the three southeast counties that contain cities like Miami, Ft. Lauderdale, and Palm Beach).

A lot of people doubt that statistic is correct, I was going to try to figure it out. He held it up to South Korea which he considers to be the gold standard, which is 1 in 200, but that was country wide.