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…and welcome to another day of coverage of the coronavirus outbreak in the US – and the politics around it. First, as usual, the figures according to researchers at Johns Hopkins University:
The @nytimes story is a Fake, just like the “paper” itself. I was criticized for moving too fast when I issued the China Ban, long before most others wanted to do so. @SecAzar told me nothing until later, and Peter Navarro memo was same as Ban (see his statements). Fake News!
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