Brazil takes down COVID-19 data, hiding soaring death toll

Brazil removed from public view months of data on its COVID-19 epidemic on Saturday, as President Jair Bolsonaro defended delays and changes to official record-keeping of the world's second-largest coronavirus outbreak.Brazil's Health Ministry removed the data from a website that had documented the epidemic over time and by state and municipality.The ministry also stopped giving a total count of confirmed cases, which have shot past 672,000 – more than anywhere outside the United States &n