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Meanwhile, in the United States, Donald Trump, the president, has announced that he has tested positively negative for the coronavirus.
Trump on his latest coronavirus test: “I tested very positively in another sense, so, this morning, yeah. I tested positively toward negative, right? So, no. I tested perfectly this morning, meaning I tested negative. But that’s a way of saying it. Positively toward the negative” pic.twitter.com/El53NhCqOL
Had the US begun social distancing just one week earlier, the country would have prevented 36,000 deaths through early May, according to researchers at Columbia University, writes Kenya Evelyn in Washington for the Guardian US.
Had action been taken two weeks earlier, by 1 March, 54,000 fewer Americans would have died of the virus, the researchers determined.
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