"If you change methodology, you really have to go back and recast historic numbers. But that isn't being done." That is completely inaccurate. The deaths were

"If you change methodology, you really have to go back and recast historic numbers. But that isn't being done." That is completely inaccurate. The deaths were added to historic numbers, and the "garbage number" is what was added to the total cumulatively to-date, and did not represent a 24 hour number on official stats. See the graphs on these pages. As you can see there is no discontinuous jump. [0] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/14/nyregion/new-york-coronavirus-deaths.html?smid=tw-share https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/14/nyregion/new-york-coronav... [1] https://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/covid/covid-19-data.page https://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/covid/covid-19-data.page