I think that Trump deserves a lot of criticism for how he's handled this pandemic. Perhaps his biggest failure through all this has been his lack of leadership, which I know is a nebulous concept. He needed early on to understand and appreciate the magnitude of not what had happened, but of what was going to happen. Instead, and seemingly against the advice of the medical, scientific and national security experts, he initially tried to convince people that Covid19 wasn't a problem. "We've got it under control" "It's only one guy from China, we're on top of it" "It's 15 cases and in a couple of days it will be close to zero" "One day we'll wake up and, like a miracle, it will be gone" All these statements were wrong and misleading.
Anyway, being not that smart but talking a lot anyway is a dangerous combination, even moreso when you're the President of the United States. People actually listen to the President. So you have the guy out in Arizona who took the fish tank cleaner and died. Maybe he was just really foolish and Trump has no culpability, or maybe Trump shouldn't have been talking up that medication so much. It's debatable.
But when a Governor of one of the most populous states says that his slow action in closing his state down was based on Trump's "demeanor", you see a direct connection between Trump's weakness and lack of leadership and the increased spread of the virus.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/01/politics/desantis-florida-coronavirus/index.html
"DeSantis had consistently rejected calls to issue a statewide stay-at-home order, leaving it to counties and cities to decide on their own whether to bar residents from leaving their homes for anything other than essential needs. That had led to a hodgepodge of rules and regulations across Florida, with some of the largest counties mandating stay at home orders as their less populous neighbors declined to do the same.
DeSantis often used Trump and the federal government to defend his lack of statewide action
"I'm in contact with (the White House team handling coronavirus) and I've said, 'Are you recommending this?' " DeSantis recalled during a news conference on Tuesday. "The task force has not recommended that to me."