As you probably know, Trump ordered hospitals to stop reporting Covid data to the CDC and instead give it to the dept. of Health and Human Services which is directed by a guy he appointed. What I didn't realize was that this order came into effect July 15th, which is just two days before the all time peak of new cases, on July 17th, after which the new case numbers have been in steady decline. I know this is old news, I just hadn't realized how closely those dates lined up. Kinda scary!

  • thefunkycomitatus [he/him,they/them]
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    4 years ago

    Wait until you learn that red states are being under-reported while blue states are continuing to be reported accurately. That way it looks like only red states are declining while blue states are still rising.

    • ned_ludd [he/him]
      hexagon
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      4 years ago

      Ugh that makes a lot of sense. Know any good articles about this?

      • thefunkycomitatus [he/him,they/them]
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        4 years ago

        This astrophysicist did a good video breaking down the math and the stats but because the data was corrupted by Texas and another state, he took down the video. Here's his correction video, but the base claim that states are being tallied differently based on who voted for Trump in 2016 hold true:

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2O5ZG7g77s