Yikes. Kinda early in the day for 1,227 US daily deaths.

[LuckyCharms]

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?utm_campaign=homeAdvegas1?

I look at the above website several times a day. The day ends and resets to the next day at Midnight GMT, which is 8pm east coast time.

It is 140 pm east coast time as I type this, and there are already 1,227 US deaths today. The past two days have been running right around 1,300 for the entire day.

[MissB]

1. Tuesday is the weekend catchup?

Maybe?

[LuckyCharms]

2. Thank you. Yes that could indeed be the reason. n/t

[Ms. Toad]

7. It has been for the last 3 weeks.

Monday still low, Tuesday back up.

[spanone]

3. We're 'liberating' a lot of folks

[obamanut2012]

4. Weekend deaths updated and merged

There is always a spike on Tuesday.

[bullwinkle428]

5. 322 from New Jersey, vs. 230 from New York, so I'm guessing there

was a reporting lag in the deaths from New Jersey over the weekend.

[Mariana]

6. Some of the deaths from over the weekend are being reported now.

That's what I think. There's a pretty consistent pattern that is probably due to some of the people who compile and report cases and deaths being off work on weekends.

[Ms. Toad]

10. Except that this pattern has persisted beyond the correction period.

What you are proposing accounts for a daily glitch - but reports are corrected and deaths moved to the day they actually occur - generally within a week's time (aside from when the reporting criteria changed). The pattern from the two previous weeks still shows fewer deaths on the weekend - and generally on Monday, with an increase on Tuesday.

[greenjar_01]

8. As noted above, the last few weeks we've seen big reporting out on Tuesdays

Capturing the deaths for the weekend and Monday.

That said, we'll no doubt hit 2,000 deaths reported today, if not more. We'll likely end the day over 72,000 dead.

[qazplm135]

9. That's been the pattern..

Sunday Monday low then high Tuesday through Saturday.