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- President Donald Trump said at a Fox News town hall on Sunday night that "everybody," including leading infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci, previously downplayed the severity of the virus.
- In response to a question about why he did not act sooner to prepare for a COVID-19 outbreak in the US, Trump said Fauci "was saying it's gonna pass, not gonna be a big deal."
- While Fauci has been warning the Trump administration about an infectious disease outbreak since 2017, he said in January that the novel coronavirus was not something Americans should be worried about "right now."
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President Donald Trump responded to a question about his slow response to tackling the coronavirus crisis during a Fox News town hall on Sunday night, saying that "everybody," including leading infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci, previously downplayed the severity of the virus.
"What I did, way early, is I closed our country to China," Trump said in response to a question about why he did not act sooner to prepare for a COVID-19 outbreak in the US.
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