I've been using
Worldometers to look at COVID data since early on. Definitely a "sawtooth" pattern to the deaths, at least as reported. Now I suppose maybe it could be that on Monday deaths are reported from over the weekend? But I noticed that pattern a while ago.
It applies on the state level too, at least here in GA. Or, rather, it did earlier when the pattern was more apparent:
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/usa/georgia/ Spikes, slight drop, severe drop, maybe a bit of an increase, and then a spike again. But I do notice two trends here, according to those charts: 1. Seems like daily infection numbers are curving down, and 2. Daily deaths are trending down somewhat too. Now, of course, overall deaths are gonna keep going up, 'cause until we find a cure for death or can Thanos-snap death into nonbeing, the number of deaths will continue to increase overall on account of people generally tend to die at the end of their life. I hear a "400K dead by January" number being thrown around by... Fauci or somebody? How many people in the "COVID Death" age group and of similar medical history died between May 2019 and January 2020, do you think? A few hundred thousand, perhaps? People do tend to do that, it's something of a requisite for being alive or so I hear.