Welcome to science reporting in general. Covid reporting hasn't been any worse (maybe even slightly better due to time available to become slightly familiar).

Wait until a new paper mentioning Quantum Teleportation is published to see how bad things can really get.

On that topic, I found out that using specimen date instead of reporting date (for those health agencies that do that) gives you a far better picture of the trend, since reports can lag a lot due to testing bottlenecks.