The equivalent of that story would be the new governor of New York reporting that an additional 12,000 deaths were being hidden from the public by Cuomo. Then adding that 12,000 to the count and saying New York has 12,000 deaths in a single day. That would also be false.
...to avoid getting banned for inactivity, I may have to resort to comments that are of a lower overall quality and or beneath my moral standards.