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After days of signaling that the country could reopen by Easter, the White House was forced on March 28 into a harsher posture as public-health warnings kept getting uglier. The reversal exposed how little room there was between Trump’s political wishes and the pandemic’s actual timeline.
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After days of signaling that the country could reopen by Easter, the White House was forced on March 28 into a harsher posture as public-health warnings kept getting uglier. The reversal exposed how little room there was between Trump’s political wishes and the pandemic’s actual timeline.
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