The death rate will be operating under somewhat different dynamics with the increased testing alone.
Not alone. The increased testing is insufficient to explain the increased cases. And the death rate will likely be a smaller percentage since the percentage of relatively young people getting the disease is larger than before.
But the increase in cases will lead to the number of deaths increasing more than it has in the last month or so.
I saw a graph which was very informative but can't find it now. The number of new tests has been increasing roughly linearly over the last three months, whereas the number of new cases rose, then plateaued, then rose precipitously. Therefore the increase in testing does not solely account for the increase in cases.
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