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The president's political aides have successfully demanded to review and, in some cases, modify weekly Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports on the coronavirus to better align scientific reports with Trump's upbeat messages, Politico reported.Michael Caputo, a former Trump campaign official who became spokesperson at the Department of Health and Human Services this spring, and…

435 new COVID-19 cases confirmed in Massachusetts, 16 additional deaths The Massachusetts Department of Public Health reported an additional 435 confirmed cases of COVID-19 on Saturday, bringing the statewide total to 122,637.State health officials also confirmed 16 new COVID-19-related deaths across Massachusetts, bringing the state's confirmed coronavirus death toll to 8,987.More than 2.96 million molecular…

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Asymptomatic children can transmit COVID-19 to adults, research by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has confirmed. A new CDC study, published on Friday, traced 184 students, teachers and family members connected to three daycare centers in Salt Lake City, Utah between April 1 and July 10. Doctors and researchers have noted that children are less…

A former Trump campaign official now spokesman for the US health department sought to change key reports on the coronavirus pandemic, in some cases “openly complaining” that they “would undermine the president’s optimistic messages about the outbreak”, according to internal emails seen by Politico. The official, Michael Caputo, told the website he was attempting to…