The Boston Globe’s editorial board has published an absolutely scathing editorial this week calling Donald Trump “unfit” to lead amid the coronavirus pandemic, arguing that he has “blood on his hands.”

The editorial, called “A President Unfit For a Pandemic,” argued that much of the projected loss of life from coronavirus was preventable. They wrote that death and suffering will be the result of failed leadership, not uncontrollable circumstances.

“While the spread of the novel coronavirus has been aggressive around the world, much of the profound impact it will have here in the United States was preventable. As the American public braces itself for the worst of this crisis, it’s worth remembering that the reach of the virus here is not attributable to an act of God or a foreign invasion, but a colossal failure of leadership,” the editorial board wrote.

In the article, the board laid out how Trump initially appeared to prioritize short-term stock market gains over the “country’s well-being.” They explained how the president downplayed the risk from coronavirus by repeatedly comparing it to the common flu and insisting the government had it under control when it actually did not.

“Timing is everything in pandemic response: It can make the difference between a contained local outbreak that endures a few weeks and an uncontrollable contagion that afflicts millions. The Trump administration has made critical errors over the past two months,” the board wrote.

Trump in recent days has defended his administration’s performance amid the coronavirus pandemic, describing it as “fantastic,” “incredible” and “great.”

The Globe editorial, however, cited instances in which Trump said the coronavirus was under control in the U.S and pushed for an end to social distancing by Easter. Trump has since said that social distancing should continue through April 30.

The administration made “catastrophic decisions” and “critical errors” that have “doomed” the U.S. to “a season of untold suffering,” the editorial board wrote.

The Globe’s editorial staff noted that the U.S. has recorded more cases than any country around the world — more than 189,600 cases and 4,081 deaths, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.

“Americans are consigned for the coming weeks to watching the illness fell family members and friends, and to fearing for their own fate as they watch death tolls rise,” it wrote.

“But come November, there must be a reckoning for the lives lost, and for the vast, avoidable suffering about to ensue under the president’s watch,” the editorial said.

Public health officials Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx have warned the U.S. could face between 100,000 and 240,000 deaths.