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.
curiouschinwag Sounds exactly like what China did in terms of under reporting.
And with that Dr. Birx sacrificed her integrity and reputation in service of the president's personal desires. She placed his wishes above the truth, her oath, and the needs of the nation. Shame on her. God help the rest of us.
Numbers .... numbers.... numbers. The first time in his pathetic life he wants actual numbers to be SMALLER than reality. Just wait for the large numbers that come out in November against this POS!
The only number that can make him look “good” is zero. Zero American deaths due to COVID-19 brings us back to “Nothing to see here, folks, it’s just a hoax.” It’d be faster to just hand him a reversed death-toll graph.
Haha he as always is full of crap
KathyA11 I thought the 's came from Johns Hopkins.
Sigh... potus your a demented sociopath. We need a leader with empathy and integrity. TrumptheWorstPresidentEVER
Because we're tolerating it.
Literally playing with our lives..
So even though most health officials think C19 total deaths r probably higher than 82k Birx thinks they might be 25% less . Would 62.5 k be acceptable? I seem to recall hearing we have 15 cases and soon that number will be zero. It’s a disaster no matter where the numbers land.
Here’s the thing. We can count. And we can subtract. That means, whatever they do to play with the numbers...we will know simply by averaging the death rate year over year and subtracting it from 2020 deaths. Voila... Covid 19 death number. The same can be done for iCU stays
realDonaldTrump WHY DON’T YOU USE YOUR SHARPIE, YOU HEARTLESS GUY! YOU REPRESENT ALL THREE GUYS FROM WIZARD OF OZ. NO HEART, BRAINS OR COURAGE!!
Keep reporting on this! Don't let the corrupt, lying narcissist get away with it!
This guy
Maybe he should stop making predictions and then looking the fool when the numbers fly buy his prediction
Does he thinks that going to change anybody's mind on how badly he and his administration have handled the pandemic by hiding bodycounts
No surprises here. It's all about the numbers with this heartless clown. 'I don’t need to have the numbers double because of one ship that wasn’t our fault'
according to five administration officials working on the government’s response to the pandemic. 5 anonymous sources seems legit
IT WILL BE MILLIONS BUT
JillEHughes I downloaded their NYC info just in case.
Downright evil.
Trump wants to win & would not hesitate to adjust the figures into business style presentation to look good!
Is he saying that the truth be suppressed? 😂
I thought it was only China that under reported deaths and changed the definition. Say what
So he's not concerned about the death toll. He doesn't really care about those who have actually died. He's upset the numbers make him look bad. The president of the United States is pressuring the CDC to LIE to the American people to cover up the blood on his hands. TrumpVirus
Hasn't he been doing this all along?
Fake News.
RichardIrmi Trump can't handle facts like the number of coronavirus deaths, FFS.
I wonder why.
How about accurate reporting. Just because a person tested positive and died doesn't mean he or she died from it. BIG difference. COVIDー19
FAKE NEWS.
Fake news
I figured it was only a matter of time before Trump would start arguing that the numbers are highly inflated. Denial of reality is the go-to move of the Trump cult.
He’s trying to lower them just to change the optics. The numbers are actually much higher, since a number of deaths go unreported and many die at home without ever going to a hospital. This is just another attempt to fool the American people and the uneducated will fall for it.
This just in: the White House has announced that Bob Anderson will be tried for treason on Thursday and executed on Friday.
Death to the the greedy not the poor
He's right. The reporting is a joke.
You can't hide a monumental f.... up when your responsible. The harder you try the worse it will get. History will record your madness and its horrendous impact on America.
'Report' says...'five unnamed officials'... 'The Daily Beast' (WTF?)...right. Great reporting, guys.
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POTUS realDonaldTrump wants honest numbers!! KAG ObamaGate
He just doesn’t give a damn people are dying
Trump is looking like he doesn't understand a thing...
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