As you probably know, Trump ordered hospitals to stop reporting Covid data to the CDC and instead give it to the dept. of Health and Human Services which is directed by a guy he appointed. What I didn't realize was that this order came into effect July 15th, which is just two days before the all time peak of new cases, on July 17th, after which the new case numbers have been in steady decline. I know this is old news, I just hadn't realized how closely those dates lined up. Kinda scary!
Seems a bit hard to fudge your numbers when your approach to finding any infection in an area is to lock down the zone and order mandatory 100% testing of the population in order to find the infected and clean it out. Wuhan got 11 new infections discovered and they locked down followed by testing 11million people as a result of it. They consider the area covid-free now and haven't even got social-distancing on it anymore.