What's going on with the pandemic in the US?
From the NYTimes page, the graph of the new cases has been reasonably steady for a while, before taking an upturn in the last days. (Might be the effect of protests, or the effect of reopenings.)
But the graph of deaths has been trending down steadily, and that continues. So either more testing is finding more of the less serious cases, or the virus is becoming less virulent, or something else.
I'd guess the first,
{Update:I've seen a discussion that the increased testing is more and more of younger people, who aren't as susceptible to covid-19. It makes sense that generally we focused our limited tests on the worse cases--i.e., assisted living/nursing homes, etc. and now the drive-through testing spots are getting active adults.]
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