Republicans fiddle while the coronavirus burns through the population as they have been doing for months. It started with Trump. Here he is one year ago today:

Here is the President of the United States telling the country it's okay to go to work with Coronavirus.

I'm not kidding.

"I do not see a connection between the relief bill and the number of Americans dying.
What am I missing?"

The point is that the bill will help provide funding to help get the vaccine into people's arms in various ways:

Fact Sheet on House's Reconciliation Package & the Biden Administration's COVID-19 American Rescue Plan

The Fiscal Year 2021 Reconciliation Act puts into action the policies and budgetary requests outlined
by the Biden Administration's American Rescue Plan.

VACCINES:

The American Rescue Plan calls for the establishment of a national vaccination program, and this
legislation provides critical funding and resources to increase COVID-19 vaccinations across the
country.

Many states have struggled to distribute vaccines after the Trump Administration chose to defer almost
entirely to the states to distribute and administer all vaccines.

The American Rescue Plan requests $20 billion for improving COVID-19 vaccine administration and
distribution, including vaccination clinics and mobile vaccination units, a vaccine awareness campaign,
and increasing the Federal Medical Assistance Percentage (FMAP) to Medicaid-covered recipients of a
vaccine. It also requests over $5 billion for research, development, and manufacturing of vaccines,
therapeutics, and ancillary supplies.

Specifically, the Fiscal Year 2021 Reconciliation Act provides:

"What I am objecting to is the assertion ofthe asserted linkage that the quick passage of the bill will reduce deaths. I do not see such a correlation."

It could help in by providing funding for these services:

Over the last two days, the Committee advanced four legislative proposals that, among other things, provide:

$14 billion for vaccines;
$46 billion for testing, contact tracing, and mitigation;
$7.6 billion to hire 100,000 full time public health workers to support COVID-19 response;
$25 billion to address health disparities and protect vulnerable populations;
$4 billion for behavioral and mental health services;

JPW, I understand what you are saying. My point is that getting this money in the pipeline sooner will help speed up the vaccination process when more supply is available and will, in turn, save lives. No, that won't happen immediately after the bill is signed into law, assuming it is, but don't forget the actual signing date is still a week or two off. Then the funds have to go out and be put to use, which won't happen instantaneously either.