Trump is pressuring the CDC to change its death-toll methodology and produce a lower figure,...

President Donald Trump and members of the White House's coronavirus task force have put pressure on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to alter how it counts virus deaths, the Daily Beast reported on Wednesday.
The outlet cited five unnamed administration officials working on the government's coronavirus response as saying that Trump was pushing for a new methodology that could lead to a lower US death toll.
Sources told the Daily Beast that Dr. Deborah Birx, the task force's response coordinator, had urged the CDC to exclude two categories of people from its death count: people who were presumed to have the virus but didn't have confirmed test results, and people who did have the virus but may not have died from it.