You can't say that Quasis, not if your article is based on your Deaths graph:
It may be ephemeral statistical noise but the fact is Deaths for the last four iterations of the 7-day average daily Deaths show that Deaths peaked on Feb. 2. These are the averages:
Feb. 1, 2,636.
Feb. 2, 2,660
Feb. 3, 2,632
Feb. 4, 2619
None of those dates, Tuesday through Friday, are statistical lag days. It's not much, a drop of 41/day over seven days, but tell the families of the 287 folks who didn't die that their loved one's survival is "not much." Not good reporting, NYT.
14-day changes
-56% Cases
-19% Hospitalizations
+21% Deaths
317,764 Cases. Down.
128,543 Hospitalizations. Down.
2,619 Deaths. Down. We are 723 away from the all-time 7-day daily record of 3,342 set on Jan. 26, 2021. On Feb. 2 we were 684 Deaths from Peak Death. You really can't say that Quasis and you shouldn't have.
