Behave as you will.
A lot of writing for someone who completely missed the point. This isn't a lag of days, it's a lag of MONTHS. This week has seen over 3000 deaths from May 2nd and earlier reported. If you want to use that to form a trend line, I mean, be my guest. But be upfront about it.
So rather than the trend line going up recently, the whole line should have been much higher all along.
That's not comforting.
Also, all the states that are now reporting a rise in death rates... they're all doing the same thing in a coordinated fashion to count old deaths as new?