Which does lower the count of positive cases. That was 45's plan, and clearly his administration is trying to reduce covid cases being counted. And not reporting them seems to be another way to "lower the numbers."
But numbers do get reflected in percentage of positive cases per 100,000.
That number is on the rise.
Here's a recent interactive article. They have charts showing testing trends.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-testing.html
An average of 727,000 tests per day were performed over the past week, according to data collected by the Covid Tracking Project, far below the current nationwide target of 1.4 million daily tests. The target, which is based on a methodology developed by researchers at the Harvard Global Health Institute, is different for each state and varies over time as infection rates change.
see article for more data.
There is so much wrong with the US response to this pandemic, and manipulating the data is yet another effort by this administration to lie and minimize and hide the true scope. Their in person, non-masked, not socially distant convention will encourage and allow many to justify forgoing those protocols, and we will begin to see numbers rise again, even with reduced testing and underreporting, which happens mostly in red states. But they travel to blue states, and live in them too.
Wear a mask (properly) and stay safe!
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