Where do you see that?

Supposedly this isn’t an analysis dataset. It’s just the total deaths reported by coroners in each state.

I also feel like there is funny business being played with the data,just not sure how.

According to the CDC it is. You can download the dataset from the CDC and organize it according to month. Took me about an hour to do.

Not that I’d put it past the CDC to fudge numbers, but according to their data there’s about 200K more deaths so far this year.

Here’s the link if you don’t believe me. Ignore all the causes of death, just add up the total number each week until this point last year and compare.

https://data.cdc.gov/widgets/muzy-jte6

Yea it’s up about 200k this year according to CDC. Not sure if that’s an accurate number but the OP post is using CDC data that leaves out data points.