So I assume you're talking about surviving families. There are lots of legal reasons why not, including a Supreme Court case, Nixon v. Fitzgerald; as well as issues relating to causation, since each person would have to prove by a preponderance of the evidence that that particular death would not have occurred but for Trump's concealing what he knew and his failure to act. Since the pandemic would have come to the US and some people, though far fewer, would have become ill and died no matter what was done, it would be impossible to prove that the death of any particular person was Trump's fault. It was estimated in May that 36,000 lives would have been saved if action had been taken even a week sooner, but it would be difficult if not impossible to determine which specific lives those would have been.
And Trump doesn't actually have that kind of money, and in any event the taxpayers would pay the damages since Trump was acting in his official capacity as president when he decided when and how to respond (or not).
This isn't to say he isn't culpable because of course he is. But there are insurmountable hurdles in the way of imposing legal liability.
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