Coronavirus live news: Trump says he 'perhaps' misled Americans as global deaths pass 900,000
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A health official hired by a Donald Trump appointee has been working to prevent Dr Anthony Fauci from talking about dangers that Covid-19 poses to children, Politico reported on Wednesday.
The attempts by Dr Paul Alexander – who serves as a senior adviser to Michael Caputo, the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) assistant public affairs secretary – were described in emails obtained by Politico.
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Here is a video of US President Donald Trump saying he was ‘trying to avoid panic’ by not revealing the severity of Covid-19, despite CNN audio published on Wednesday from an interview in February in which he acknowledged the virus was ‘deadly’:
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