The President of the United States, Donald Trump, presented himself as a successful case of treatment for covid-19 and spoke of his experience with the disease as a way of “learning a lot”. But having an exceptional patient — perhaps it is not an exaggeration to say the most exceptional of all – to focus attention and to be seen as the example or model of a disease that has many forms is misleading and, experts have hastened to say, especially dangerous.
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