Are U.S. weekly total deaths increasing due to coronavirus? The answer is that they are doing the opposite since the peak of the flu season, which may surprise a lot of people
Weekly U.S. flu deaths are also showing a decline after this season's flu peak
And weekly pneumonia deaths were also on the decline from the flu peak. But in the very last week on the chart they jumped significantly.
One reason for this outcome may be the result of coronavirus infection deaths also being coded with associated pneumonia. Or actual COVID-19 deaths being inaccurately labeled as pneumonia deaths.
These mortality statistics are heavily revised each week by the CDC as more complete information is submitted to CDC by the states.
The adjacent chart is a plot of this dataset from the U.S. CDC. Click on chart to enlarge.
(The very latest week of statistics was not included in the chart since it included a datapoint of only 27,500 total deaths for the week - that would be a record extreme low since 2013.)
The adjacent chart is a plot of dataset from this CDC website page.