There are also a lot of reasons to mistrust the numbers on not only cases but also on deaths, because hospitals are receiving $13,000 per diagnosed case from Medicare and $39,000 if the patient goes on a ventilator. Moreover, many deaths are being recorded as Covid-19 for the cause of death, even if something else was the dominant factor; there are cases of patients in Hospice care with weeks at best to live who also contracted Covid-19, so Covid-19 was ruled cause of death.
Whenever there is money involved in the system, there will be those who will abuse it.