Yes, OP, thank you for that, but do NOT overlook Trump being the one to mandate SSN records with all counting. Social Security numbers now MANDATORY under special Trump Law stopped the rampant triple counting, and lies!!!! Trump stopped this liberal scam of overcounting! Trump law now DEMANDS SSN IDs with all data from now on to prevent the mammoth 15X inflation of COVID-19 cases! No more duplicate records of fake records! How? By using U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which now as of May 2020 has full SSN ID access of all fields of medical records sent to it!!! U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is authorized to access identifiable medical records for research that CDC is not able to fully store. The HHS Trump intends to use is fully federally allowed to record patient identities, further enhanced as per Trump laws enacted March 9, 2020. HHS Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), as part of 21st Century Cures Act (Cures Act) do indeed RECORD AND STORE PATIENT MEDICAL RECORDS IF GIVEN THEM as part of "electronic health information" (EHI) including patient identities therein. All 320 pages of March 2020 law permitting the above, within Federal  Register/ Vol.  85,  No.  85 / Friday,  May  1,  2020 :  https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2020-05-01/pdf/2020-07419.pdf Bwah hah hah hah! Checkmate! Prior to that May 2020 published law, initiated by Trump, the most specific patient records allowed for 20 years for such agencies, even FBI, was a "Tuple" of three data fields. The "Tuple" record was : Identity of Person, including DOB and SSN if existent, DATE of a medical "event" but not what the event was, and EXACT LOCATION of the medical event (hospital address or doctors office). Just those three data fields. No medical info if SSN present. That Tuple is not useless, it prevents fake identity creation for falsified human citizens but useless for medical research. To fake a human existence, you need to have past medical record Tuples in the "ChoicePoint CAPPS-2 DHS security database" and if no prior tuples... you are not a US citizen, probably 99.9999% accurate assumption.  The CDC prior to Trump new law has no SSN access or identity access of patient info, and still does not technically, but in May 2020 a New Trump law allows and mandates US HHS to receive all COVID-19 case info, accurate, with SSNs. This new law allows full medical record use for LEGITIMATE federal purposes (CDC never is part of that, but HHS now is). Like the HHS, preventing any more triple counting of COVID-19 data. Trump passed the law 3 months ago, and its in force finally over a month ago! It is retroactively removing all faked data created after May 9 2020. Dramatic revision effects being seen as late as the last week of August. Many hospitals tried to REFUSE to honor Trumps law, citing "confusion" and they foot dragged, stalled, bitched, tried to squirm. Now all data after May 2020 is being "back-corrected" to remove 3x, 4x, and 15x (yes 15x!!!) triple counting, by mandating SSN tied to each so-called positive case. So many news articles about hospitals bitching and similar articles about downward deleted statistics from the triple counting being removed. Hilarious.  California in one county refuses to provide SSNs and ALSO pays the person $1,250 dollars to pretend to test positive, but has a payout cap under 20 million, and the data of illegal aliens with ever-changing names and no SSN will NOT be counted at a federal level by COVID-19 database at U.S. Department of Health and Human Services if not citizens and only "tourists". Checkmate again, by Trump. : https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8604311/California-county-PAYING-residents-test-positive-coronavirus-1-250-stay-home.html In Texas it dramatically got rid of 10x overcounting! 4,638 prior to just total of 308 cases!!!! And those are just antibody phantoms mainly. https://www.dallasnews.com/news/public-health/2020/08/25/health-officials-investigate-collin-countys-significantly-overstated-covid-19-case-data/ https://www.infowars.com/texas-county-drops-from-4600-active-covid-cases-to-under-100-after-audit/ You can see in this article the active cases Collin Co, Texas was cumulative 4,638 before being corrected now to 308 on 2020.08.18. 100 in actuality total cumulative for Collin Co., Texas. Hah! The democrat ploy is stopped by Trump! That is a ploy mostly stopped by SSN data record field in new law for COVID-19 case tracking, allowable and MANDATORY to send to HHS. That is why all data from May to present are being back-date corrected in each state. This does not stop mis-attribution of mortality cause on death certificates, but does dramatically reduce the Democrats main statistical trick of phantom triple counting (or 15x counting actually). Thanks, Trump!