President Donald Trump and his aides are pushing the CDC to change its coronavirus death-toll methodology, according to The Daily Beast, which cited five unnamed sources saying that the White House had pushed for a different system that could produce a lower U.S. death figure. The sources said that Dr. Deborah Birx, the task force's response coordinator, had urged for two categories of deaths to be excluded: people who likely had, but weren't confirmed as having, COVID-19, and people who definitely had COVID-19 but died from unrelated causes or underlying conditions. Trump has publicly supported CDC's numbers, though other reports have described him as being suspicious that the figures are too high. However, Dr. Anthony S. Fauci said coronavirus deaths are undercounted.