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On July 23, Trump was still leaning hard on the idea that rising coronavirus case counts were just a function of more testing, even as the country was deep in a worsening summer surge. The argument was politically convenient and medically misleading, which is a bad combination when the president is trying to explain away a public-health failure.
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On July 23, Trump was still leaning hard on the idea that rising coronavirus case counts were just a function of more testing, even as the country was deep in a worsening summer surge. The argument was politically convenient and medically misleading, which is a bad combination when the president is trying to explain away a public-health failure.
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