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On August 4, Trump used a White House briefing to keep selling the idea that the pandemic was manageable even as hot spots kept spreading and the death toll kept climbing. The performance may have been intended to reassure nervous voters, but it mostly underscored how far the administration’s optimistic script had drifted from the public-health reality.
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On August 4, Trump used a White House briefing to keep selling the idea that the pandemic was manageable even as hot spots kept spreading and the death toll kept climbing. The performance may have been intended to reassure nervous voters, but it mostly underscored how far the administration’s optimistic script had drifted from the public-health reality.
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On August 4, Trump used a White House briefing to keep selling the idea that the pandemic was manageable even as hot spots kept spreading and the death toll kept climbing. The performance may have been intended to reassure nervous voters, but it mostly underscored how far the administration’s optimistic script had drifted from the public-health reality.
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