Trump a rosy outlier on science of the virus

Groundless assurances keep coming from President Donald Trump, a rosy outlier on the science of the coronavirus pandemic.

It’s been that way since before the virus spread widely in the United States, when he supposed that the warmer weather of April might have it soon gone, a prospect the public health authorities said was not affirmed by the research. Now he’s been talking about a country revved up again by Easter, April 12, while his officials gingerly play down that possibility from the same White House platform.

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