Trump says recent comments from Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Director Dr Robert Redfield that a second Covid-19 wave could be even worse were "inaccurate".

"He was totally misquoted," Trump says. "His whole purpose in making the statement was to get a flu shot."

Redfield joins Trump to clarify.

He says he noted that next autumn "could be more difficult, more complicated" if influenza and Covid-19 were circulating at the same time.

"I think it's really important to emphasise what I didn't say," Redfield says.

"I didn't say this was going to be worse, I said it was going to be more difficult and potentially complicated.

"The issue that I was talking about being more difficult is we're going to have two viruses circulating at the same time."

Redfield says he was accurately quoted in the Washington Post, but takes issue with the headline, “CDC director warns second wave of coronavirus is likely to be even more devastating”.

Here's what Redfield is quoted as saying by the Post: “There’s a possibility that the assault of the virus on our nation next winter will actually be even more difficult than the one we just went through.

"We’re going to have the flu epidemic and the coronavirus epidemic at the same time.”

Trump tweeted about this earlier: