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Barack Obama: “Let's say we lost more than a million people from COVID in…”

Featuring: Barack Obama, Democratic | 44th President of the United States | National

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But if you look at a country like Canada, their per capita death rate was 60% lower than the United States. Now, I want you to do the math. Let's say we lost more than a million people from COVID in the United States. 60% difference. That's 600,000 people. People's grandparents, people's parents, cousins, brothers, friends, coworkers. Most of you know, somebody whose lives was touched. 60% might be alive if we had a capable, competent government that was paying attention. (1:01:02–1:01:17)

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Asserts that a 60% lower death rate could have saved 600,000 lives in the U.S. during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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