Trump urges calm amid coronavirus concerns

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Trump urges calm amid coronavirus concerns

By Graham MacGillivray and Nathan Ouellette

Posted March 10, 2020 at 4:26pm

A day after a massive stock market dip, President Donald Trump told Americans to “be calm.”

The president was on Capitol Hill to speak to Senate Republicans as he and lawmakers mulled over ways to mitigate the economic impact of the COVID-19 disease and its spread.

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