Why is no one talking about the fact that we have seen a steady decline in overall covid deaths for 6 weeks now?

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[–]Breeze 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I would expect that the deaths would lag behind the current increase in daily cases by 2 to 3 weeks. The increase in daily cases started around June 14th and on your graph there is a slight bump in deaths from the previous week. Next week should be even higher. I wouldn't expect that deaths to reach maximum per day even though cases per day is highest because we should be better at treating it.

[–]magnora7 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

But the spike in infection rate is over a month old, so the deaths should already be showing that

[–]Breeze 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I see the spike starting at June 14th and there is already a slight bump. The graph above shows bump from the previous week if you look at the bars. The line doesn't look like it because it is the 7 day average and the increase in deaths is less than a week, it looks like it just needs one more day above the previous week and it will tick up.

[–]Bigs 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This.

Deaths lag a few weeks behind infections.