Mon Feb 22, 2021, 10:08 AM

DonViejo (58,768 posts)

Fauci Delivers Blunt Assessment of U.S. Coronavirus Death Toll: 'We've Done Worse Than Most...

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Fauci Delivers Blunt Assessment of U.S. Coronavirus Death Toll: ‘We’ve Done Worse Than Most Any Other Country’

By Joe DePaoloFeb 22nd, 2021, 9:43 am

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In an interview on Good Morning America Monday, the infectious disease expert was questioned by host George Stephanopoulos about whether there was more that the U.S. could have done to lessen the impact of Covid-19.

“Five hundred thousand Americans — families grieving all across the country,” Stephanopoulos said. “Did this have to be?”

“Certainly some of it, but not this bad,” Fauci said. “I believe that if you look back historically, we’ve done worse than most any other country — and we’re a highly developed rich country.”

Fauci did not invoke or directly assign blame to former President Donald Trump. But he did cite the prior administration’s lack of a national strategy as a primary reason why the virus has hit so hard.

Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/news/fauci-delivers-blunt-assessment-of-u-s-coronavirus-death-toll-weve-done-worse-than-most-any-other-country/

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11 replies	Author	Time	Post
Fauci Delivers Blunt Assessment of U.S. Coronavirus Death Toll: 'We've Done Worse Than Most... (Original post)	DonViejo	Feb 22	OP
Four per cent of the world's population. Over 25 percent of the cases (and those are just the ones	niyad	Feb 22	#1
Staggering	Delphinus	Feb 22	#9
It was premeditated.	dalton99a	Feb 22	#2
I don't think so. It's just not on Dumdum's radar	Warpy	Feb 22	#4
The entire administration was grissly inept & had no interest in governing	onetexan	Feb 22	#5
Exactly.	efhmc	Feb 22	#8
The entire administration was grissly inept & had no interest in governing	onetexan	Feb 22	#6
Thankfully we had the Doc.	twodogsbarking	Feb 22	#3
Hundreds of Thousands of Deaths will be Trump's legacy. Total inept behavior by Donald Trump	Stuart G	Feb 22	#7
Fauci sites a lack of national strategy as primary reason why the coronavirus hit the US so hard....	riversedge	Feb 23	#10
Actually about the same per 100,000 as several European countries:	EX500rider	Feb 24	#11

Response to DonViejo (Original post)

Mon Feb 22, 2021, 10:12 AM

niyad (75,759 posts)

1. Four per cent of the world's population. Over 25 percent of the cases (and those are just the ones

we counted!), and 29 percent of the deaths. Yes, pretty poor.

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Mon Feb 22, 2021, 08:15 PM

Delphinus (8,884 posts)

9. Staggering

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Response to DonViejo (Original post)

Mon Feb 22, 2021, 10:13 AM

dalton99a (59,422 posts)

2. It was premeditated.

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Response to dalton99a (Reply #2)

Mon Feb 22, 2021, 01:49 PM

Warpy (99,514 posts)

4. I don't think so. It's just not on Dumdum's radar

because it was all happening to people he didn't know and when it happened to him, he pulled a bunch of strings and got over it, so why didn't they do the same thing?

It happened because Republicans just don't give a damn about anyone else.

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Mon Feb 22, 2021, 01:55 PM

onetexan (9,061 posts)

5. The entire administration was grissly inept & had no interest in governing

Nor did they care about people, only to ise their positions of power for self serving influence &line their pockets.

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Response to onetexan (Reply #5)

Mon Feb 22, 2021, 02:39 PM

efhmc (13,188 posts)

8. Exactly.

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Response to Warpy (Reply #4)

Mon Feb 22, 2021, 01:56 PM

onetexan (9,061 posts)

6. The entire administration was grissly inept & had no interest in governing

Nor did they care about people, only to ise their positions of power for self serving influence &line their pockets.

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Mon Feb 22, 2021, 01:40 PM

twodogsbarking (635 posts)

3. Thankfully we had the Doc.

A great man.

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Mon Feb 22, 2021, 02:14 PM

Stuart G (29,888 posts)

7. Hundreds of Thousands of Deaths will be Trump's legacy. Total inept behavior by Donald Trump

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Tue Feb 23, 2021, 05:39 PM

riversedge (60,134 posts)

10. Fauci sites a lack of national strategy as primary reason why the coronavirus hit the US so hard....

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Fauci did not invoke or directly assign blame to former President Donald Trump. But he did cite the prior administration’s lack of a national strategy as a primary reason why the virus has hit so hard.

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Wed Feb 24, 2021, 12:39 PM

EX500rider (6,599 posts)

11. Actually about the same per 100,000 as several European countries:

Lower then UK & Italy, slightly more then Spain & France:

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