The Unnecessary Price of Covid-19

Peter Bergen wrote for CNN on a new report that put the unnecessary death toll from Covid-19 in the U.S. at 500,000 lives.

According to a new report, half a million Americans may have died unnecessarily of Covid-19. At the same time, the US government spent trillions to deal with the pandemic when better preparedness could have saved many lives and much money. American schools were also closed for many months unnecessarily, with students paying the price.

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