Trump says he minimised COVID-19, didn't want to create panic: Woodward book

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President Donald Trump acknowledged in February he knew how deadly and contagious the novel coronavirus was but played it down because he did not ...

US President Donald Trump holds a campaign rally at Smith Reynolds Regional Airport in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, on Sep 8, 2020. WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump acknowledged in February he knew how deadly and contagious the novel coronavirus was but did not convey that information to the American people because he did not want to create a panic, according to interviews for a new book.

In that conversation, Trump also told Woodward that some"startling facts" had just come out about the virus' targets:"It's not just old, older. Young people too, plenty of young people."The White House on Wednesday denied Trump intentionally misled Americans about the virus, which has killed more than 190,000 people in the United States so far, with new cases spiking in the Midwest.

"And so that's a very tricky one. That's a very delicate one. It's also more deadly than even your strenuous flus."

 

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