This meme is a screenshot of a Facebook post by Dr. Jeff Hester, a scientist and astronomer. The post shows a graph of COVID-19 cases in the US, with a red line indicating the number of cases when the data was handed over to the CDC, and a green line indicating the number of cases when the data was handed over to the CDC after the Trump administration took control of the data. The text of the post reads: "The data shows the 7-day average number of COVID-19 cases in the US. The red line indicates the number of cases when the data was handed over to the CDC, and the green line indicates the number of cases when the data was handed over to the CDC after the Trump administration took control of the data."
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