Trump reportedly pressuring CDC for COVID-19 death toll revisions

The President of the United States Donald Trump and his coronavirus task force are collectively pressuring the country's top health agency to revise the current COVID-19 death counts, revealed in an exclusive piece by the U.S. media agency The Daily Beast.

The news organization said that Trump wanted to exclude certain deaths when states counted their own and when the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) aggregated the total, as he said they were "incorrectly tallied or even inflated by current methodology," the Daily Beast wrote.

But five CDC officials briefed the Daily Beast, saying that they have been seeking to reject those demands, citing that states are already striving to count every COVID-19 death possible and this would only undermine their efforts.

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