When patients get transferred to a hospital in another County, there is also a good chance that they will be double counted - reported in each County’s totals, and never de-conflicted.
I’m only counting body bags.
The CCV positive numbers will never be believable, in either direction. My son had Covid - he had the symptoms, his friends co-workers tested positive, he had the flu in February, so it wasn’t that, but after waiting 2 weeks, the CCV test came back negative.
People that test positive for CCV, have to take the test multiple times in order to go back to work. I see no way that this doesn’t double count some of the numbers/exaggerate positives, because people that test negative don’t generally re-test.
The positivity rate, the way the data is collected is about meaningless. Deaths/Hospitalizations are easier to count... except Hospitals are pretty quiet on the details of the hospitalizations (race, nationality, age. gender. etc.) - don’t want to confuse the media narrative.