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The study's authors fault the Trump administration for policy decisions made before the pandemic.

The Lancet Commission described the former president's COVID-19 response as “inept and insufficient" and advocated for a single-payer health system.

40 Percent of U.S. COVID Deaths Could Have Been Averted If It Weren't for Trump: Report Newsweek 2/11/2021 Jason Lemon © Tasos Katopodis/Getty Then President Donald Trump golfs at Trump National Golf Club on November 26, 2020 in Sterling, Virginia A new report highlights the hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths in the U.S. under former President Donald Trump, noting that some 40 percent of COVID-19 pandemic deaths in 2020 would have been averted if America's mortality rate was equivalent to other wealthy peer nations. The report—published Thursday in one of the w...

February 11, 2021 In 2020, there were about about 400,000 Covid-19 related deaths in the US, more than in any other country. Yet something else kills even more Americans, every year: inadequate healthcare. According to a study published today in The Lancet, a UK medical journal, there were 461,000 so-called “missing Americans” in 2018. That means that if the US had a life expectancy equal to the average of countries of comparable wealth (in the study, the group is identified as G7 countries: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, UK, and US), its population would be nearly half a mi...

A new report found that 40% of America’s COVID-19 deaths could have been prevented, the Lancet Commission on Public Policy and Health found that many people didn't take the pandemic seriously at the beginning.