Trump coronavirus briefings put health officials in bind
President Trump frequently uses the briefings to settle scores with the media, and his efforts to put a positive spin on the news and his administration's actions has led him to embrace ideas that lack scientific backing.
He then sometimes asks the scientists and doctors around him to weigh in or offer support, putting them in an impossible spot.
It's been an issue throughout the timeline of the briefings, but it has particularly been under a spotlight this week.
Trump on Wednesday urged Robert Redfield, the director of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), to publicly denounce a Washington Post headline even though Redfield acknowledged he was quoted correctly in the story saying a second wave of coronavirus could prove more difficult for the country.
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