A new study, published Monday in the Journal of American Medical Association, estimates that nearly 100,000 Americans who died from COVID-19 would be alive today if the United States enacted a more coordinated federal response in the early months of the pandemic. The study compared coronavirus deaths in the United States to those in 18 other high-income countries. The comparisons showed that, for example, the U.S. has had 90,000 more COVID-19 deaths than Italy since May 10 — a date by which both countries knew the risks of the disease and at which point they began taking different federal approaches to it.
To discuss, Jim Braude was joined by one of the study’s authors, Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, a former Obama White House policy adviser, and vice provost of Global Initiatives at the University of Pennsylvania.
