Health experts blame Trump administration failures for US vaccine shortages: Officials say previous leadership didn’t order enough doses or provide enough funding, meaning that push has not been accompanied by sufficient supply to meet demandhttps://www.timesofisrael.com/health-experts-blame-trump-administration-failures-for-us-vaccine-shortages/Trump Administration’s Vaccine Failure Leaves Workers Unprotectedhttps://www.dcreport.org/2021/02/10/vaccination-trump-administrations-failure-leaves-workers-unprotected/The Trump Administration Was Just Kidding When It Said It Had Tons More Vaccine Doses to Ship Out (It Has Zero)
Surprise: Team Trump has royally f---ed up the COVID-19 vaccine rollouthttps://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/01/trump-administration-vaccine-doses-screw-upTrump officials actively lobbied to deny states money for vaccine rollout last fallhttps://www.statnews.com/2021/01/31/trump-officials-lobbied-to-deny-states-money-for-vaccine-rollout/Why America's vaccine rollout under Trump was a total disaster — and what it means for the next few monthshttps://www.businessinsider.com/why-the-us-vaccine-rollout-is-a-disaster-what-next-2021-1Wearing Masks save lives: Here’s what you need to knowhttps://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/masks-save-lives-heres-what-you-need-to-know-2020111921466As Many as 130,000 Lives Could Be Saved the Next 3 Months If Everyone Wore a Maskhttps://www.healthline.com/health-news/as-many-as-130000-lives-could-be-saved-the-next-3-months-if-everyone-wore-a-maskWhy has Donald Trump fought so hard to keep his tax returns secret?https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/23/politics/donald-trump-tax-returns-scotus/index.htmlDonald Trump's other, tragic big liehttps://www.cnn.com/2021/02/22/opinions/trump-covid-big-lie-reiner/index.htmlAfter a devastating milestone, Covid-19 vaccine makers pledge hundreds of millions of doses through JulyAfter Covid-19 took the lives of half a million victims in the US, the nation's top infectious disease expert said the mass tragedy was avoidable.
"It does ... pain me when I see things like pleading for people to do the kinds of things that you know work -- the mask wearing, the physical separation -- and the denial," said Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
It was "actually painful for me" to see hospitals overwhelmed with Covid-19 patients, he said, and "in those same regions, there were people who were denying that this was going on, saying, 'Oh, it's fake news, it's a hoax.' I mean, how could you possibly say that when people in your own state, your own city, your own county, are dying?"
"Here we are today, looking at 500,000 Americans who've died thus far," Fauci said.
"That's the proof of what actually has been going on. You can't deny that."
The US Covid-19 death toll is by far the highest of any country -- and more than double that of Brazil's, which according to Johns Hopkins University data has the next highest number of virus-related fatalities.
Experts have said several factors contributed to an unnecessarily brutal pandemic, including a lack of clear messaging from the country's leadership, state and local leaders loosening restrictions too quickly, large holiday celebrations and continued resistance to wearing face masks or social distancing.
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