‘Trump Death Clock’ in Times Square Tracks COVID-19 Fatalities ‘Due to POTUS Inaction’

A clock labeled the “Trump Death Clock” was launched in New York City’s Times Square on Friday, May 8, to track COVID-19 deaths believed to be caused by President Donald Trump’s “inaction”. Eugene Jarecki and a team constructed an online counter for “estimating the toll of the White House’s delayed response” in taking action when the coronavirus pandemic was first reported in the United States, an editorial that appeared in the Washington Post said. “In January 2020, the Trump administration was advised that immediate action was required to stop the spread of COVID-19. According to NIAID Director Dr. Anthony Fauci, “there was a lot of pushback” to this advice. President Trump declined to act until March 16th. Epidemiologists now estimate that, had mitigation measures been implemented one week earlier, 60% of American COVID-19 deaths would have been avoided,” the Trump Death Clock website said. At the time of writing, the clock was at nearly 49,500 estimated COVID-19 deaths. The site displays the number of people who have died in the country from coronavirus “and an estimate of that portion whose lives would have been saved had the president and his administration acted just one week earlier,” the editorial said. Credit: TrumpDeathClock.com via Storyful

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