"Check the dashboard, only 17 actually died yesterday, the rest from earlier dates. You don't know the true death rate until about a month after the fact."
No 17 people didn't die yesterday. 17 people died and their deaths were reported the first day. Reports of people that died July 14th will continue to come in for many days. In the end it will be a much larger number than 17. We do know the deaths reported during the last two days has averaged 120 a day. Since the number of cases has expanded in the last several weeks, it's likely the deaths will follow that pattern. Until we get it stabilized they will continue to rise.
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