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Last Tuesday had 1054 deaths, today had 1121, a 6.4% increase over last week.

Given the upward trend of deaths as they follow 2-3 weeks behind the case curve, I think today is about where it should be. I'm happy the number wasn't higher.

I look in on this thread only now and then, so apologize if this has already been asked/answered.

The way you're reporting deaths, are you going by the count as reported on a particular day, or do your charts reflect deaths on the day they death was actually recorded?

To explain - I'll use Arizona for example. Something like half the deaths reported for AZ in July are from "death certificate matching," which means a) they're assumed COVID deaths (as opposed to tested/confirmed), and b) the death actually took place weeks ago ... as far back as March.

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Posted by Chromdome35

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Member since Nov 2010

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Posted on 7/28/20 at 11:46 pm to David_DJS

I believe that the data represents the count as reported on a particular day, your first premise.

I am not aware of any data source that shows the deaths adjusted to the actual date of death. Do you know of one?

I'm not the source of the data, I'm just downloading the dataset from the COVID Tracking Project daily and updating my sheet, so my stuff would be based on however their methodology works. WorldoMeter's number do differ some from the COVID Tracking Project, so every source is a bit different. Over time they all look the same graphically, no real difference.

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