>>8988998
I absolutely believe the numbers are fake and with CDC's guidelines of adding Covid19 to suspected (not confirmed) cases is horrible policy.
I was just curious to see if I could replicate Qs chart with the source data.
So, I downloaded the csv referenced in Qs post for up to week 12, pulled it into excel and created a pivot/chart. I was able to reproduce the same chart showing the decline with the week 12 data. Now I was curious to see what it looks like closer to date.
I downloaded the CDC data for up to week16. Pulled it into Excel, pivot and chart.
I wonder if the last week in the CDC weekly archive file does not contain the complete week of data, because if I include week 16 in my chart, it looks like a drop. So, I rendered the chart with up to week 15 and here are my results.
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/weeklyarchives2019-2020/data/NCHSData16.csv