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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 7998426" data-attributes="member: 177">Though Theo already mentioned this... no, a dip for a couple days is not evidence of doctoring data.  We must note that getting from the death itself, though a chain of reports, to a graph or data you see, is a chain of human activity.  It has dips on weekends, and often spikes come Monday.As an example, this is a graph of daily increase in cases in Massachusetts (from WBUR.org, a local NPR station).[ATTACH=full]122290[/ATTACH]It is... really spiky.  You don't want to draw any conclusions from change over a day or two.  You want to look at longer term trends to get an idea of what is happening overall.  In this graph, you see daily variation, but also a long term rise, and then a gradual falling off in new cases.</blockquote>