Asked about Trump's claim 99% of coronavirus cases were "harmless," Fauci said the president had made an error and conflated statistics.

In a Thursday interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity, Trump said Fauci had "made a lot of mistakes" but called him a "nice man." Trump also said "most cases" of coronavirus would "automatically cure.

Also in the FT interview, Fauci said Trump was incorrect in claiming 99% of coronavirus cases were "harmless" and may have conflated some statistics. .

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Asked in a Monday interview with "Fox and Friends" about Trump's claim that 99% of coronavirus cases were "harmless," White House chief of staff Mark Meadows said, "When you start to look at the stats and all the numbers that we have, the amount of testing that we have, the vast majority of people are safe from this." 

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