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.
Direct payments and subsidized wages? I sincerely doubt it. Pelosi outright rejected those ideas early on, as a matter of principle.
We probably would have taken it more seriously to begin with. Which would have helped. But anything short of doing a proper lockdown with contact tracing and mass testing, followed by strict quarantines anywhere the virus is detected, is going to eventually lead to large uncontrollable outbreaks.
Remember that Clinton is a neoliberal centrist, whereas Obama and Biden are center right. The neoliberal playbook in this case is direct payments and subsidies to keep the economy afloat followed by severe austerity. Trudeau and Johnson are following this playbook, and will follow through with the austerity as conditions improve. Clinton would have had an eye towards how history would remember her in the moment and swung her ideology accordingly. Don’t forget how vain she is.
Remember that Trudeau is a minority government propped in part by our NDP, unlike how a Clinton admin would exist.
If Trudeau was a majority govt, we wouldn't have had the response we did. So in america, they'd care even less about trying to do something.