Yep. CDC claims Georgia had 1,379 new cases on 3/1/2022.
Georgia reports 243.
Our actual numbers have not been as high as the effin’ liars at CDC claim since 2/11/2022.
Here’s how the CDC does that (in part; some simply seems to be pulled out of their collective ass):
Georgia reports confirmed cases (PCR test) and possible cases (rapid antigen test)… separately.
The CDC lumps both of those together as “new” cases for a given day. Note the “new”.
Georgia reports cases two different ways. By Date of Onset (when the person got sick or tested positive), and by Date of Report (when a report of a case finally made it to the state DPH). So for any given date cases reported could include cases from any number of different days. For instance, on 3/2/2022, DPH reported a bit over 900 cases… by date of report. But the cases reported on that date actually included one from July 6, 2020. (Why it’s taking nearly twenty months for reports to get logged by DPH is a bureaucratic mystery.)
Guess which number, DOR vs. DOO, the CDC uses and claims are “new daily cases.”
Then there’s the anal magic the CDC uses, which I’ve never been able to figure out. The CDC has, on occasion, managed to inflate Georgia’s new daily cases by almost 4,000 times.
Yeah, days when one case got reported magically became nearly 4,000 when the CDC did its thing with the data.
