The new cases started going down as soon as they switched from the CDC to HHS. I'm not saying there's a conspiracy or anything but if people wanted to make one there's plenty of fodder.
New cases aren't being reported to HHS, only hospital resource utilization is
My biggest concern isn't necessarily fudging of the numbers, it's more that hospitals were apparently given little time to prepare for the system switch.
I've heard thru the grapevine that PENN Hospital wasn't given advanced warning of the new data consolidation.
If someone like you is in the dark, who knows what is happening. It's all really fishy.