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Trump Is Still in Denial About the Virus
The president offered a stunningly misleading description of the pandemic on Monday. He may have even believed it.
In his own world.
Photographer: Emily Elconin/Bloomberg
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Some 200,000 people in the U.S. have died from the coronavirus. We’re within days of hitting 7 million cases. Sure, a lot of those involve mild or no symptoms, but plenty of them involve hospitalization, weeks of illness and, for some, serious long-term harm. The fight against the pandemic, often with minimal assistance from the federal government, has produced a massive recession and severely disrupted the lives of almost everyone.