Trump coronavirus briefings put health officials in bind

Health experts on the White House coronavirus task force increasingly are being put in a tough spot by the president’s daily press briefings.

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.