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The global tally for confirmed cases of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 climbed above 30 million on Friday, according to data aggregated by Johns Hopkins University, while the death toll rose to 946,490. At least 20.5 million people have recovered. The U.S. has the highest tallies in the world with 6.7 million cases and 197,644 deaths. Brazil has the second highest death toll at 134,935 and third highest case tally at 4.5 million. India is third with 84,372 deaths and second with 5.2 million cases. Mexico is fourth with 72,179 deaths and seventh with 684,113 cases. The U.K. has 41,794 deaths and 384,087 cases, the highest death toll in Europe and fifth-highest in the world. Controversial coronavirus-testing guidelines posted on the CDC website that said asymptomatic people don’t need to get tested even if they have been exposed to the virus were not actually written by the CDC, the New York Times reported Thursday, and were posted over the objections of CDC scientists.

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Controversial coronavirus-testing guidelines posted on the CDC website that said asymptomatic people don’t need to get tested even if they have been exposed to the virus were not actually written by the CDC, the New York Times reported Thursday, and were posted over the objections of CDC scientists. Citing internal documents and sources familiar with the matter, the Times said the Department of Health and Human Services rewrote the testing guidelines in late August and “dropped” them into the CDC’s website without proper vetting. The recommendation contained numerous errors, the Times reported, and was inconsistent with the CDC’s messaging, especially as asymptomatic people are considered major vectors of COVID-19’s spread. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention quickly walked back the new guidelines after an uproar. A new version of testing guidelines is expected to be announced Friday, the Times said, which also has been revised by the HHS and has apparently not been properly vetted. The incident appears to be yet another instance of the politicalization of an historically apolitical agency, which threatens to undermine its credibility during the worst pandemic in a century.

Amazon was the Postal Service’s “largest customer” in fiscal 2019, according to documents obtained by a watchdog group.

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Unity is set to wrap up a big week for tech IPOs on Friday, and investors showed bullishness, pricing the stock above its expected range.

Shares of Snowflake traded sharply lower a day after the company’s blockbuster market debut.