That is, of course, ridiculous. A fraud on its face. It amounts to gibberish, or, perhaps more accurately, double talk.
7-day moving average of cases, rate of change from
March 19 to June 19, 2020 (early outbreak): up 863%
June 19, 2020-Sept. 19, 2020: up 46%
Sept. 19, 2020-Dec. 19, 2020: up 430%
Dec. 19, 2020-Mar. 19, 2021(vaccine rollout): down 75%
Mar. 19, 2021-June 19, 2021: down 78%
June 19, 2021-Sept. 19, 2021 (community spread picks up, mostly in the South and West): up 1207%, to 72% of its value 9 months ago.
(Using Sept. 17 figure as a proxy for today’s.)