Death rate increases typically follow weeks after infection rates increases.
I read an article in Lancet that said that was because patients don't go home and die immediately after getting tested. If that were the case, you would see deaths spike well before the increase in positive test results, because you don't get the test results back for a couple of weeks, and the politicians need some time to skew the results to make it look like what we are dealing with here is more akin to a stubbed toe than a full on pandemic. Call it a month, more or less. Of course, like any opinion of scientists, there is a lot of disagreement, so there is no reason to believe it. Let's give it time to see how everything plays out, say a couple of years. We are only in the top half of the first inning, and we have an exceptional bullpen available to us. You don't want to count your chickens before they hatch. Don't worry, the US will have the best response stats when this is all over, and Trump will have won the Nobel Prize in medicine for his treatment discovery of injecting disinfectant directly into the patients' lungs and then taking them down to the car lot to lie down on one of those big search lights for a couple of hours. If you had connections, you could fly to Gotham City, and Commissioner Gordon would escort you to the roof of police headquarters, where you could lie down on the Bat Signal. It goes without saying that Trump used the Defense Production Act to force manufacturers to make several million search lights to alleviate the search light shortage. Trump likened it to closing the mine shaft gap in the 1950s.
As a sort of footnote to history, and I hesitate to mention this since I know that there are a lot of Trump supporters here who don't like having their noses rubbed in it, but in that same year Trump was also up for the Nobel Prize in logistics for his search light production work, but was narrowly edged out of the honor by an intern in UPS's marketing department who discovered that you could achieve a seven-fold improvement in package delivery efficiency by painting all the brown trucks blue. Apparently the drivers were happier and therefore more productive. There were some rumblings about voter fraud, but since the judges voted by a show of hands rather than mail-in ballots, Trump could never really prove anything, and he finally dropped it after spending several hundred million dollars in legal fees. The scuttlebutt is he lost Turnberry over it.
[Sorry for that last aside, but I couldn't resist. Alexa was playing Crystal Gayle's version of that brown eyes blue song, and I had a moment of epiphany.]
