R World (Ron Davison muses aloud)
24 October 2024
What Was Possible With Even An Average COVID Response
In the first year after the outbreak, COVID fatalities in the U.S. occurred at roughly twice the rate of the average OECD country. This suggests that, had the pandemic been managed as effectively as in other countries, around 40% of the Americans who died from COVID in that first year might have survived.
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It's worth noting, too, that if Trump had not cancelled Obama's research into creating a SARS vaccine we might have had a tested vaccine ready to go at the beginning of the crisis. This might have saved millions of lives worldwide, and could even have put the genie back in the bottle.
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