Andrew Johnson, the first United States president to be impeached, ranked below him.
When the coronavirus pandemic first began,Twitter-obsessed Trumpdownplayed it to the American people.
It’s one person coming in from China, and we have it under control.
It’s going to be just fine," viaVox.
That column was written just days after American states started shutting down.
First, the initial kits used to test people for COVID-19 ended up being defective and unusable.
“It goes through the air,” Trump told Woodward on February 7.
“That’s always tougher than the touch.
You don’t have to touch things.
But the air, you just breathe the air and that’s how it’s passed,” viaReuters.
Just days before Trump’s presidency ended,USA Todayreported that 400,022 Americans had died from COVID-19.
In March of 2021,Dr.
Deborah Birx, who led the White House Coronavirus Task Force, toldCNNthat most of those deaths were avoidable.
“I look at it this way.
The first time we have an excuse,” Birx said.
“There were about a hundred thousand deaths that came from that original surge.
All of the rest of them, in my mind, could have been mitigated or decreased substantially.”
