At one extreme is the laissez-faire approach taken by the U.S. government. Citing concerns about the economic impact and curtailing individual freedom, President Trump let the virus rip through the country. As a result, over a million people in the U.S. died—0.31 percent of the total population.[73] In the UK, the government imposed several lockdowns with the intention of slowing rather than halting the spread of the virus. Covid-19 killed 200,000—0.27 percent of the population.
