Virus vaccine

There are reports saying that Trump is responsible for the deaths due to covid because he played down the danger. Assume that Trump came on national TV last March and announced that the virus is very serious and the CDC estimates that between 1.6 and 2.2 million Americans will die over the next few years it will take to develop a vaccine. He said people should go to CDC.org and follow the instructions. If you went there it said you did not have to wear a mask. His critics might have said he was causing a panic. It has been a running battle between those who want to shut down the economy to save lives and those who want to save the economy at the risk of lives. It is difficult to determine how things would have panned out under a Hilary administration but you can always say fewer people would have died. It is fairly certain that the vaccine would not have been developed in less than a year and no way to determine how many lives the vaccine will save.