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Where is the data coming from?

Asked by Hawaii_Jake (37345points) July 29th, 2020

This is a General Section question.

Trump ordered the sources to stop reporting COVID19 data to the CDC and instead send it directly to the White House. He did this to try to silence the bleak numbers about soaring infections and skyrocketing deaths. Today, we passed 150,000 deaths.

Where is this data coming from if not from the CDC? Where do news organizations get it from? I have read the stories from reliable news organizations, but they don’t state where they are sourcing their information.

It’s likely useless to state this, but I will anyway. I am hoping someone can link to something verifiable. I’m looking for facts. I am absolutely not looking for your opinions about the pandemic or your ideas about where the media goes for information. This is not put here to debate whether something is or is not fake news. If you don’t have facts, please scroll on by.

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