Trump puts Pence in charge of coronavirus response in meandering press conference

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• Stopping short of calling for new travel restrictions or any mandatory measures, President Donald Trump gave a meandering and, at times, confusing press conference intended to calm the public amid the coronavirus outbreak. 
• President Trump put Vice President Mike Pence in charge of the "Corona [sic] Task Force," with the nation's top public health officials reporting to him.
• Trump described Pence as "very good at doing what he does, including as it relates to this."
• "We're looking at worst case scenario," Trump said. "We're going to be set very quickly."
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Flanked by the nation's top public health officials and his vice president, President Donald Trump riffed his way through a press conference on the American response to the coronavirus.

"We're looking at worst case scenario," Trump said at the start of the press conference. "We're going to be set very quickly."

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