?.?.?? You said numerous times it is a conspiracy, in fact numerous conspiracies.
I had no other explanation. This is a plausible reason!
It's still true that there are doctors and askanim pushing for no testing (not a conspiracy!), but it makes sense that low numbers were combination of this and non reporting of rapids.
My conspiracy theory was that the urgent cares themselves weren't reporting. I didn't really believe it but I couldn't think of any other explanation of the discrepancy between the official numbers and the packed urgent cares. This would resolve it.