Ah, yes - "facts".
I ran one of the most important numbers reports for my institution when I was there.
It was my baby.
I used to joke that I should just write an interactive program where the minions of the cheeses could just type in the numbers that their bosses wanted to see, instead of bugging me daily for "changes to the program".
In the case of the "covid numbers", there's at least a thousand times more reasons to load garbage numbers into the database.
Probably more than a thousand, which is why it's a waste of time to look at them.
But you do what makes you feel good, House. 