COVID19 Update - Day 219

US Tests: 113,419,159*

US Cases: 7,939,566*

US Deaths: 209,340*

Worldwide Cases: 38,825,968*

Worldwide Deaths: 1,096,833*

* - Numbers are a lower bound.  True numbers are being suppressed by the Trump administration

Yet more evidence that Trump's 'response' to the virus has been uniquely horrible.

During this pandemic, people in the United States are dying at rates unparalleled elsewhere in the world.

A new report in the Journal of the American Medical Association finds that in the past five months, per capita deaths in the U.S., both from COVID-19 and other causes, have been far greater than in 18 other high-income countries.

"It's shocking. It's horrible," says Dr. Ezekiel J. Emanuel, a professor of health policy and medical ethics at the University of Pennsylvania and one of the authors of the study.

"The United States really has done remarkably badly compared to other countries," he says. "I mean, remarkably badly."

'American exceptionalism' used to be a GOOD thing.