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The White House spent April 28 trying to project confidence on the pandemic, but the gap between the rhetoric and the public-health crisis kept widening. The day fit the larger pattern: Trumpworld wanted credit for action and optimism while hospitals, nursing homes, and local officials were still dealing with the ugly math of COVID-19.
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The White House spent April 28 trying to project confidence on the pandemic, but the gap between the rhetoric and the public-health crisis kept widening. The day fit the larger pattern: Trumpworld wanted credit for action and optimism while hospitals, nursing homes, and local officials were still dealing with the ugly math of COVID-19.
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