For some reason the link SHS (and Q) used STARTS Feb 1, 2020.
It’s missing the January data which messes up their annualization calculation.
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Table 2. Deaths involving coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), pneumonia, and influenza reported to NCHS by jurisdiction of occurrence, United States. Week ending 2/1/2020 to 10/3/2020.*
OK. Thanks. Do you have a link to the table you used?