An optimistic president is looking forward to Fourth of July celebrations on the Mall and promising air displays above American cities, while his scientific advisers are urging caution, with warnings that COVID-19 could return in the fall when cases of flu burden hospitals.

The different approaches at the heart of the White House response to the coronavirus pandemic were on full display during Wednesday’s daily briefing.

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