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In a weekend appearance in Florida, Trump dismissed concern about the coronavirus, saying flatly that he was not worried as public health officials and state governments were already bracing for a much wider outbreak. The gap between presidential posture and public-health reality was growing by the hour, and it was starting to look less like confidence than denial.
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In a weekend appearance in Florida, Trump dismissed concern about the coronavirus, saying flatly that he was not worried as public health officials and state governments were already bracing for a much wider outbreak. The gap between presidential posture and public-health reality was growing by the hour, and it was starting to look less like confidence than denial.
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In a weekend appearance in Florida, Trump dismissed concern about the coronavirus, saying flatly that he was not worried as public health officials and state governments were already bracing for a much wider outbreak. The gap between presidential posture and public-health reality was growing by the hour, and it was starting to look less like confidence than denial.
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