Wow, is that ever messed up!
Its amazing that with all the sophisticated IT and Big Data systems that this could get so fouled up. And this is with literally DECADES to prepare for the next major pandemic.
Our Kootenai Health (Coeur dAlene, ID) had a big Q&A / FAQ in the local paper a few days ago. People were saying they had heard they would get more federal money for inflating COVID cases. Kootenai denied it vigorously, then a couple days later an article came out about how this bounty for COVID cases is real and really distorting the numbers nationwide.
The government could f**k up a football.