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By Arne Delfs

January 24, 2021 at 5:11 PM UTC

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There’s probably not much German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government would adopt from Donald Trump, but the treatment the former U.S. president received when diagnosed with Covid-19 last year appears to have caught her attention.