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July 23, 2020 at 12:21 AM EDT

Amid rising deaths, Trump paints a rosy image of America’s current and future

President Trump painted a wishful view Wednesday of the U.S. response to the coronavirus pandemic, wherein current therapies can virtually treatment sufferers flooding hospitals, all colleges will safely reopen this fall and the nation’s hovering instances are confined to a handful of states.

However the rosy evaluation he issued at a White Home information briefing — alone on the lectern with none prime public well being specialists — was undermined by the alarming actuality that on Wednesday virtually each metric confirmed simply how badly America is shedding its combat in opposition to the virus.

By William Wan and Jacqueline Dupree

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