According to a new model out from the University of Washington, a grand total of 630,881 Americans are expected to be dead from the coronavirus by June – an addition of more than 200,000 deaths since President Donald Trump left office and President Joe Biden stepped into the Oval Office claiming to have a “plan” to “defeat the coronavirus.”
Of course, this assumes the models are correct and that every death attributed to COVID-19 is, in fact, directly due to COVID-19 – claims that have both remained in dispute, but which were standards commonly used to judge the Trump administration’s successes and failures in dealing with the pandemic. So, to be fair, we’ll just go with it.
When Trump left office on January 20, the United States had just surpassed 400,000 COVID deaths, a tally that had ebbed and flowed for nearly a year since the pandemic first began in earnest in March of 2020.
If the latest University of Washington model is correct and another 230,000 Americans die from COVID in the first 131 days of the Biden administration, that means more than 1,750 people will have died each day under a president who ran on the campaign promise that he would correct the Trump administration’s alleged failures on the pandemic and “defeat” the coronavirus once and for all.
During the Democratic National Convention in August, Biden blasted Trump for allegedly not having a "plan" to deal with the pandemic, despite the Trump administration having already launched the plan that facilitated the production of a COVID-19 vaccine in record time.
'It didn't have to be this bad ... after all this time the president still doesn't have a plan. Well I do," Biden said at the time.
Biden on COVID-19: 'It didn't have to be this bad ... after all this time the president still doesn't have a plan. Well I do.' #DemConvention pic.twitter.com/2iRGOUIKo8
— NowThis (@nowthisnews) August 21, 2020
"I will take care of this, I will end this, I will make sure we have a plan," Biden again vowed in his opening statement during an October presidential debate.
In his opening statement, Joe Biden said "I will take care of this, I will end this, I will make sure we have a plan" when asked about how he would handle Covid-19 #Debates2020 https://t.co/8FlGMGJgcS pic.twitter.com/9VqPFOcVd4
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) October 23, 2020
Of course, Biden was barely in office a week before he finally admitted that short of lighting candles to the dead, there was nothing he could actually do to simply "end" the coronavirus like he'd promised.
VIDEO: Biden saying theres nothing we can do to stop the virus. A different tune than when he said he could do a better job than Trump. pic.twitter.com/ITQB1vkagO
— Cardinal Conservative (@CardinalConserv) January 22, 2021
A fact to which the families of another 230,000 dead Americans may soon be able to testify.