Trump estimates 100 million dead from COVID-19 without his vaccination efforts

Former President Donald Trump estimated that up to 100 million people would have died from COVID-19 without his administration’s efforts to spur vaccine development.

Without Operation Warp Speed, which was the name of the Trump administration’s initiative to rapidly develop vaccines to protect the public against the coronavirus, Trump said the death toll from the health crisis would be similar to that of the Spanish flu pandemic over a century ago. .

“I think if we hadn’t come up with a vaccine during the Trump administration, you could have 100 million deaths like you did in 1917. You have the Spanish flu, 100 million people – up to 100 million people have died. I think we would be in this territory, “the former president said in an interview with Fox News host Dan Bongino on Saturday night.

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Estimates of the death toll from the Spanish flu vary, but some experts put the range between 50 million and 100 million worldwide. The worldwide death toll for COVID-19 is around 4.3 million, and more than 616,000 have died in the United States, according to the John Hopkins University tracker.

In the past two days, more than 166 million people, or half the population of the United States, have been fully immunized, according to the Centers for Disease and Prevention. But COVID-19 mutations, including the highly contagious delta variant, are leading to hot spots across the country, and therefore conversations about reimposing restrictions as well as discussions about booster injections.

President Joe Biden has suggested his administration should start the vaccination process “from scratch,” but Trump loyalists argued that Biden’s early vaccination screenings simply demanded that the new president continue at the pace started by his predecessor.

So far, the three COVID-19 vaccines available in the United States have only received emergency approval from the Food and Drug Administration, but Dr.Anthony Fauci, Biden’s chief medical adviser, said the last week that he hoped Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine would receive full approval in the coming weeks and dispel the skepticism of those who have yet to receive the jab.

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Trump has said he is a “big fan” of vaccines, but also expressed support for people who choose not to receive them.

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“I think this – I must be a huge vaccine fan, because I’m the one who did it so quickly. I did it in less than nine months; it was supposed to take five years. They didn’t. would never have even gotten it’s done. So I’m a huge fan, “Trump said on Unfiltered with Dan Bongino.

“At the same time, I’m a big fan of our freedoms, and people have to make this choice for themselves, and I would recommend that they do it, and they do it, and they are protected. turned out to be a great thing, and I also think strongly that there are people who don’t want to do that, and I really believe in someone’s choice, in someone’s freedom, and that’s how it is “, he added.

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Original author: Daniel Chaitin

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