Trump says he minimized coronavirus, 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 did not convey that information to the American people because he did not want to create a panic, according to Trump interviews cited in a new book.
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