There is no surge in COVID19 deaths; It's a lie

What's actually happening is that states aren't reporting China virus related deaths when they occur.

Here's a plot of deaths by date of occurrence and by date reported.

Note the total number of deaths for the orange and blue lines are the same; the only difference is when deaths have been reported.

Now since it takes weeks for the paperwork to be processed it's possible that deaths are going up but it's not certain.

Among the factors that will keep the death count down even as the number of cases go up are:

Most new cases are for people who are under 70 and hence unlikely to die
Most states aren't repeating NY's error and putting COVID19 patients in nursing homes
Treatment options have improved

This is just one more example of how the #FakeNews media will lie to help Democrats. If Obama were president today the coverage would be all about how deaths are going down due to his brilliant management of the crisis.