For what it's worth, this ended up happening to me, using nvm on mac. npm cache clean
didn't work. I ended up reinstalling via nvm:
$ curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.33.2/install.sh | bash
$ nvm install node
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