Trump has been heavily rebuked for repeatedly contradicting the advice of his administration's experts in his public pronouncements about the coronavirus.
He has downplayed the threat posed by the epidemic, which has killed more than 3,500 people since emerging in China, suggesting cases were"going very substantially down, not up," falsely pledging that a vaccine would soon be available and claiming without evidence that the official estimate of the death rate was"false."
Meanwhile critics point to deep CDC cuts and the White House's removal of a position on the National Security Council for responding to pandemics. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told NBC that officials were"accelerating dramatically" on coronavirus testing.
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