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I usually use this https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/ https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/ It looks like close to 3000 deat
by orblivion 6y ago
I usually use this https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/ https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
It looks like close to 3000 deaths were reported the last day or so, but note how there's always this 7 week cycle. I assume it has something to do with reporting delays over weekends. I even noticed a big dip in reports around Thanksgiving in some state graphs, particularly the case counts, followed by apparent spikes to catch up.
So, I always use the 7 day average. It's very smooth, and it looks like we're actually closer to 2500 today. That said, maybe the CDC is using different numbers.
And as long as I mentioned this, I should caveat that in Sweden they actually mark the deaths according to date of death. However, this means that it always looks like there's a big downturn in deaths in the last couple weeks, when there may not actually be.