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Editor, News-Register:
A recent United Nations report documents 10,000 Ukrainian civilian deaths due to Russia's aggressive war. That number is dwarfed by an estimated 15,000 Palestinian civilians killed in Israel's military response to Hamas' 1,200 murders Oct. 7. How then should we characterize the deaths of nearly 319,000 American civilians by what Brown University medical researchers call "Covid-19 vaccine-preventable deaths?" This devastating number is higher than a previous estimate by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Harvard School of Public Health, that 232,000 American deaths could have been prevented had the deceased been vaccinated.
"All of this comes down to trust -- whether the political leadership creates a climate of trust in public health agencies' efforts, in the science," says Dr. Thomas Tsai, co-author of Harvard's analysis.
This deadly legacy is the crime for which Donald Trump's anti-vaccine, anti-mask, anti-science harangues must disqualify him from holding public office ever again.
Bruce Joffe
Piedmont