Wow. Look at this. Every CDC weekly update before this week was heavily weighted toward deaths in the most recent weeks.

Not this week. This week is heavy on the weeks ending May 2 and April 25. https://twitter.com/kylamb8/status/1281778023935737858
Seems important that this week's reported COVID deaths were disproportionately old/backlogged.... has the media conveyed this information to the American people?
Here's another way to think about it.

65% of the deaths with COVID reported by CDC this week occurred more than four weeks ago.
These old deaths were almost all already reported to CDC, they have just been changed from non-COVID to COVID this week. https://twitter.com/kylamb8/status/1281981666861383680
Correction. This data series is derived from death certificates. So thousands of already filed death certificates were revised to add COVID.
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