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[blackhawks]

'His claim'? WHOSE claim? The article's VERDICT is clear.

The killer for you? https://science.feedback.org/review/higher-covid19-death-toll-under-biden-than-trump-reflects-longer-presidential-term-spent-managing-pandemic/

Yeah, 'SCIENCE feedback'. Which is NEVER on the side of knuckle scarping, junk science, mfr's like you.

To account for the difference in the amount of time the Trump and Biden administration managed the COVID-19 pandemic, we can calculate the average number of deaths per week. Based on the number of deaths and term durations mentioned above, we found that there was an average of 8,359 COVID-19 deaths per week when Trump was president (455,563 deaths divided by 54 weeks), and an average of 3,940 deaths per week during Biden’s presidency.

Thus fewer people died of COVID-19 per week on average during Biden’s presidency. But because COVID-19 has been present during a longer period in Biden’s term, the total number of deaths that have occurred is indeed higher than during Trump’s term. In other words, the higher cumulative COVID-19 death toll under Biden is a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic being managed for the most of his term rather than a higher mortality rate.

Another way to look at the data is to ask the question: how long did it take for the same number of COVID-19 deaths to occur during Biden’s term compared to during Trump’s term? If the mortality rate were higher during Biden’s term than during Trump’s, one would expect the death toll to reach the numbers that occurred during Trump’s term faster during Biden’s ter

As explained above, it took 54 weeks to reach 455,563 deaths during Trump’s term. After Biden’s inauguration, it took another 54 weeks to reach another 455,563 deaths (Figure 1). Thus, COVID-19 mortality rate didn’t increase during Biden’s term. This data shows that the death toll rose at a consistent pace under both administrations, before sharply slowing down around February 2022.

In conclusion, more COVID-19 deaths occurred during Biden’s presidential term than Trump’s, but this claim is potentially misleading without context. The COVID-19 pandemic impacted the Trump administration for one year. In contrast, it impacted the entirety of Biden’s presidential term, which to date is approximately three and a half years.

The post’s suggestion that the higher total COVID-19 death toll under Biden compared to Trump reflects a difference in their ability to manage the pandemic is misleading, as it fails to account for how long the pandemic affected each administration. Our analysis showed that accounting for this factor paints a different picture. The higher COVID-19 death toll under Biden mainly reflects the fact that the entirety of the Biden administration was affected by the pandemic, whereas the Trump administration was affected only in the first year. However, average weekly COVID-19 deaths have been overall lower during Biden’s term compared to Trump’s, * indicating that the COVID-19 mortality rate fell during his term.

Additionally, it’s important to remember that looking at the death toll alone doesn’t capture a full picture of what affects e mortality. Various factors, including increasing population immunity and a virus evolving into less deadly variants, can influence mortality rates and should be taken into account.

* Not so much among anti-vaxxer Trumpanzees however.