> Even as the number of cases goes up, deaths (the more important number) keeps coming down. > We keep hearing about how this trend will reverse soon, ("two weeks from now"), but that hasn't happened yet.

Your graph shows an increase over the last week. A rolling average shows that more clearly:

https://covidtracking.com/data/charts/us-daily-deaths

If you look at the currently worse off regions / states you can see the rise in deaths more clearly. E.g. in the south and west there's a pretty clearly recognizable rise:

https://covidtracking.com/data/charts/regional-deaths

Here's a link to per-region stats: https://covidtracking.com/data/charts/all-metrics-per-state and some example states with pretty clear trends:

AZ: https://public.tableau.com/shared/6GDK353C7?:display_count=y...

CA: https://public.tableau.com/shared/GKK6SFGNR?:display_count=y...

FL: https://public.tableau.com/shared/P2SSPXC3Y?:display_count=y...

TX: https://public.tableau.com/shared/M8KY224BR?:display_count=y...

> deaths (the more important number) keeps coming down.

Deaths are important, obviously, but they are also a severely lagging indicator.

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