Covid-2019 - 2020-09-17
Date:
Friday, September 18, 2020
Summary:
The US reports the usual end-of-week increase in new cases. It is aggravated by Arizona, which is reclassifying the results of past rapid-result antigen tests as positives, and dropping them into the current statistics. (We have smoothed this false surge out of the charts.) Meanwhile, Nashville health authorities are caught on tape fudging the numbers (the ones that aren't sufficiently scary, that is).