Originally Posted by theUpsideDown

Well, the process is to put everything down on a sheet and it gets audited later. If you go state by state, daily new cases, you'll see days of the week the numbers go negative (one case by nearly a thousand) as they "revise" the numbers during the final review (that are continuous) and take the cases off that clearly weren't covid deaths.

​​​​​​It is a complex process and I'm not pretending its a perfect process, but it's not an absurdist orwellian nightmare where people just make **** up and everyone nods for fear of death.

If i was in charge i would go back as the deaths are removed, to the date on the spreadsheet and remove the deaths so the curve is corrected. Someday maybe.