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!
Sure, but individual states are still all doing all their own counting, and in most states things are down these days. It was also around that time that multiple states haulted reopening plans and reclosed indoor bars.
And truthfully, the numbers that are being reported right now don't really matter. Everyone knows there's community spread any which way and is acting accordingly (in that many people really just don't care anymore). We won't be allowed to go abroad until there's a vaccine.
I think it's mostly remarkable (if it's true) because of what a naked and unsubtle lie it would be -- it would mean that institutional legitimacy is way further gone than most people on the left realize in the US.