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Well, there's also people who were going to get tested and didn't, only to be told they tested positive.

‘I Have NOT Been Tested’: 600,000 Accidentally Told They’ve Had COVID-19

There's the border states taking in Covid cases from Mexico to boost their numbers and spread contagion.

Trump Is on Point: The Covid-infected Are Fleeing Mexico…for US Hospitals

Then there's the woman who said she was told her positive result would count toward the total for a neighboring county because "they need more there". (Falsely show more counties with cases in order to push lockdown of state?)

There's the accounts of people being tested in both nostrils and therefore double counted to get the numbers up.

There's the fact that Covid-19 cases were cruelly, murderously inflated by Dem Governors trying to keep the shutdown going by forcing Covid-19 patients into rest homes among the most vulnerable.

Steve Scalise's letter to Governors of NJ, MI, CA, NY, and PA re Forcing Covid-19 patients into elder care facilitys.

There's the CDC and some locations in the nation (e.g., particular region of county) which count "presumed" (untested, unidentified) cases of Covid-19 for people who died but were not tested, or in part of Texas, they count 15 Covid-19 cases for every single positive test.

There are reports (by doctors) of persons who died of other causes (e.g., COPD) being coded as Covid-19 because in addition to fatal diseases, they ALSO tested positive for Covid-19.

There's the fact that Covid-19 cases were cruelly, murderously inflated by Dem Governors trying to keep the shutdown going by forcing Covid-19 patients into rest homes among the most vulnerable.

I think forgot some fake statistics. There's just so many. WEll, there's the fact that the CDC didn't use proper proceedures and sent out positive tests.

I forget which Governor brought a shipment of tests in from South Korea and set them under guard with National Guard troops.

Gavin Newsom purchased half a billion dollars worth of masks from China. He purchased them from a car manufacturer or some auto oriented industry. It's likely that was flat out bribery, CA is totally sold to China by now, but if they did produce masks I'd assume they were tainted. The Chinese are not our friends.

How many false negatives, considering the first 4 days of infection have a high false negative rate on SARS-CoV-2 PCR testing?

"The false-negative rate for SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR testing is highly variable: highest within the first 5 days after exposure (up to 67%), and lowest on day 8 after exposure (21%)." https://www.acc.org/latest-in-cardiology/journal-scans/2020/05/18/13/42/variation-in-false-negative-rate-of-reverse

There will always be some level of uncertainty in the numbers. We don't ever get exact numbers for any disease, seasonal influenza among them. The individual numbers themselves are not as critical as the trends and the magnitude. Right now, 7-day moving average of new cases is showing a plateau. That's better than going up still. Hopefully that begins to drop soon. The 7-day moving average for deaths is a lagging indicator, typically around 15-17 days behind the new cases numbers. So that's probably going to continue to rise for a few more days before it levels off.