interesting the national weekly death rate is down by 25%
hard to sauce the data from cdc because it is a pdf download of weekly figures going back to 2014 is 52,8005 based on the numbers supplied in their data of weekly flu and pneumonia deaths as a percentage of weekly national deaths
the data… https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/weeklyarchives2019-2020/data/NCHSData13.csv
notice the "total deaths" bottom right… the numbers are going down, and they changed the chart since this morning… chart with text was from this AM
https://gis.cdc.gov/grasp/fluview/mortality.html