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11.48pm BST

The president said that. that 60,000 to 70,000 Americans dying as horrible as that is, I mean you're talking about filling up Yankee stadium with death- it's probably going to be higher than that."

The US death toll has already topped 70,000, and experts warn that the worst is yet to come.

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11.39pm BST

The president is repeating some of the same misleading claims he's made during daily task force briefings. Just now, he said that his administration inherited broken tests".

Fact check: The novel coronavirus did not exist during the Obama administration, and they could not have made a test for the infection back then.