“By the time Donald Trump proclaimed himself a wartime president — and the coronavirus the enemy — the United States was already on course to see more of its people die than in the wars of Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq combined.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2020/04/04/coronavirus-government-dysfunction/

“it took 70 days from that initial notification for Trump to treat the coronavirus not as a distant threat or harmless flu strain well under control, but as a lethal force that had outflanked America’s defenses and was poised to kill tens of thousands of citizens.”

“It may never be known how many thousands of deaths, or millions of infections, might have been prevented...But even now, there are many indications that the administration’s handling of the crisis had potentially devastating consequences.”