According to a report, the White House has begun questioning the validity of official death tolls compiled by individual states and the CDC.
But last week, President Trump said he accepted the official toll and that he expected at least 95,000 people to die from coronavirus in the U.S, but that the figure could reach 100,000.
As of Saturday morning, more than 96,000 deaths have been recorded in the U.S., according to Johns Hopkins University, which has been tracking the outbreak using combined data sources. Over 1.6 million cases of coronavirus have been reported in the U.S., by far the highest tally of any country in the world. There have been over 350,000 confirmed recoveries.
In a press conference last month, Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House's coronavirus response coordinator, hinted the U.S. health care system's definition of coronavirus-related deaths was looser than in any other countries. Deaths at nursing homes and the lack of widespread testing are a major stumbling block in producing an accurate death toll.
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