This is such a bullshit headline that hides the actual underlying problem.
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
What actions from the Democrat controlled government have changed course at all from Trump's policies? None.
Nothing would be different, except people would be somehow even more accepting of a half million dead in the USA.
Keyword for all these sorts of articles is COULD. Sure, it COULD have gone done to 0 even. I COULD win the lottery, such a filler word that means and adds nothing