There's a load of gaslighting going on at the moment - egged along by the media usually. I don;t know if d-notices have been involved or if the entire media is tame enough not to need them, but i remember when PPE was an issue a few weeks ago - there was the turkey shipment due on a sunday - then from that monday on, none of the media in the daily conference mentioned PPE - and stil haven't really since.
Then the same thing happend with testing numbers: we had Hatt Mancock's big numberwang - that day sam coates from sky and channel 4 both said something about how many were posted, and then disappeared from the briefing the next day - none of the others have mentioned it since that i've seen (Sky were let back in a few days later, but have been behaving themselves)