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Trump downplays coronavirus threat again, even as number of cases in U.S. surges
President Trump continued to downplay the exponential spread of the coronavirus in the United States on Monday, comparing the rising death toll to the number of Americans killed in car crashes and by the seasonal flu. “We have a very active flu season, more active than most,” Trump said at a Monday briefing of the White House coronavirus task force, reverting to how he had described the coronavirus throughout February and early March, before he started to take the outbreak more seriously. The point seemed to be that, as far as mortality numbers go, the coronavirus was not an especially fearsome killer.
