Beats a rise, doesn't it? The sharp rise began on July 7 (encompassing July 1-7) and plateaued July 11. These data are of course not real, they are not Deaths but when the Deaths are reported, the reporting is voluntary and so falls off on weekends, thus the periodicity is not real. With those caveats Reported Deaths have plateaued the last five days.
I double dare you to find correlation between the 7-day reported Deaths average and the 7-day reported Cases average.
