and any deaths that might follow due to it are 4-6 weeks out.

hot states during Spring and Summer. Stay at Home orders have people largely not encountering a lot of group contact. With reopening, people start going back to offices, manufacturing plants, shops, stores regularly, and they are in those places while AC is running. I believe that last set of conditions will start to cause covid19 infections to explode in hotter southern states. I would hope that all states would be wise enough to issue mandatory mask wearing orders and fine or jail any yahoo that resist that commonsense, but I seriously don't expect to see that in states led by the likes of DeSantis, Abbott, the Georgia governor, the Oklahoma governor, ect, so I anticipate that most of the dying from covid19 will shift to those places, and those numbers are going to be grievously large.

I hope that states like Michigan, Illinois, Massachusetts, New York (already done), California, Oregon, Washington, New Mexico, ect are smart enough to have mandatory wearing on masks when in public, and fine or jail any Yahoo that defies that order.

Which means more folks in other parts of the country are starting to see the effects, making it much more real to them.

Only this source reports that high a number. It may be that the CDC finally caught up on reporting. Might be a typo--it's about 1000 higher than every other reporting source. For some, outliers require an explanation. For others, outliers are taken to be more representative of the *real* data than most of the data.

Remember that with all due regard to CNBC it is *not* the number of people who died in the 24 hour reporting period. At this point it's not a facile error, it's a foolish error. WHO can't know the actual number of deaths; in fact, the CDC probably doesn't know the actual number who died; both just know what's reported. WHO says as much, but it requires reading the technical apparatus to understand the data. I know, "reading."

https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/situation-reports is a good source for this kind of thing, if you want. They track usual reported numbers fairly closely except for that one report. It doesn't show up among the errata in situation report 103, but may be because nobody cares about them.

It was 1897 new deaths on Friday, and 1691 today. On Thursday it was 2201. The deadliest day appears to have been April 23 (with 2683new deaths)

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/ (Scroll about 2/5 of the way down the page)

So, while I agree with the concern that we are opening things too soon, the concern needs to be supported with accurate data.