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[MetalSlimeHunt]

We're still breaking records, so probably not. 78k yesterday, I believe.

[ZBridges]

Over the past eight days, however, the number of new cases per day in the US has started to plateau.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

No? It's increased by about 2% every day of the month so far.

[ZBridges]

It looks like the possible beginning of a new plateau to me.  See the flat part at the end?

https://ibb.co/LhBy0G3

[MetalSlimeHunt]

On the John Hopkins dataset it looks more like an oscillating wave. Given the record was smashed just today, I'm not convinced the pattern is broken yet.

[ZBridges]

There were 73,400 new cases today and the record is 75,697.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

78,009, assuming nobody forgot to submit their numbers before midnight.

[ZBridges]

That contradicts the New York Times database, updated about 10 minutes ago, which had the record occur on July 8th.

The CDC says there were 72,219 new cases on July 24th.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

At this point the CDC is probably cooking the books so heavily they could be firing clay.

[ZBridges]

The John Hopkins data, then, which you cited?  Even they show that the record did not occur today.

https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/new-cases

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Worldometer indicates that they generally get full numbers before nations finish publishing them, because they try to gather from sub-national sources. The day did only end a couple hours ago, and I've yet to see anyone disputing this site's counts.

[ZBridges]

Here's an investigative piece from CNN that casts doubt on Woldometer's counts:

https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2020/05/world/worldometer-coronavirus-mystery/

[MetalSlimeHunt]

There's some doubt there, but no more than I have towards the sources of every government in the world.

Regardless as to who is or is not cooking books and in which direction, the essence of my point is that all numbers agree we're at least near a peak. The cases seem to have a tendency to waver down and then rapidly increase when they are generally increasing in a real sense, and we haven't reached the end of one of those oscillations yet. This could be an (extremely high altitude) plateau, or it could still be going. Give it another week.

[ZBridges]

John Hopkins and the New York Times are not government sources.  I don't know why you trust Worldometer more than literally every other source, which largely disagree with it (including the World Health Organization), but I will concede that it is possible that this is not a new plateau.

[wierd]

Could be that at least for US govt, the govt is actively sabotaging the validity of the data.

EG, the "Official" data, is nothing but lies.