Trump is pressuring the CDC to change its death toll methodology and produce a lower figure, report says
President Donald Trump and coronavirus response coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx at a White House coronavirus briefing on April 21, 2020.President Donald Trump and his aides have argued that the CDC should change its coronavirus death toll methodology,It cited five sources who said the White House has pushed for a different system that would produce a lower figure for US deaths.The first is people who likely have COVID-19 but do not yet have lab test confirmation.
The report said that task force coordinator Dr Deborah Birx asked the CDC to exclude two categories of people from its death count. It also said that she argued for the exclusion of those who did have the virus but who may not have died from it.according to Johns Hopkins University dataThe CDC counts coronavirus deaths by tallying two information streams: data from local health departments, and data from a death certificate digital coding system, according to the Daily Beast.
One official told the Beast that the White House pushed for changes because of genuine concern for the integrity of the data, rather than any desire to obscure the reality.
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