White House may alter coronavirus briefings to limit Donald Trump's role

The briefings often stretch well beyond an hour and feature combative exchanges between the US President and reporters

From next week, US President Donald Trump might ‘pare back’ his daily coronavirus task force briefings, which usually last more than two hours a day. There has been a concerted effort among his aides and allies to get the President to cut short his daily briefings on coronavirus, which has so far killed over 50,000 Americans. On Friday, too, Trump took no questions from reporters to be able to shorten the daily coronavirus task force briefing.

There have been discussions within the White House about changing the format of the briefings to curtail the president's role, according to