The problem is not that bad if you just don't look at it, or so the COVID playbook taught us [1]:

> In July 2020, The Trump administration ordered hospitals to stop reporting coronavirus case data to the CDC entirely and instead submit all information to the TeleTracking database. The government only gave hospitals a few days’ advanced warning of the change. Health experts from the CDC Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee warned the Trump administration that the decision would impose increased burdens on hospitals and limit researchers’ ability to access critical information. Following the change in procedures, outside researchers reported significant lags in the publication of information about the number of patients being treated and hospital capacity, and that the government’s hospitalization numbers for some days were implausibly low.

[1] https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/trum...

This is a pretty devastating development for a country founded on equality for all. The bittersweet irony is that this was set in motion by the insane woke liberal mobs of the last few decades and their blatantly racist and sexist DEI policies.