The raw data is available here directly from the CDC ...
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/weeklyarchives2019-2020/data/NCHSData12.csv
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That link doesn’t take me to the CDC but wants to copy something on my computer, don’t want to do it; do you have link that goes to the CDC site?
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/weeklyarchives2019-2020/data/NCHSData12.csv
Actually that url leads to the data one week later than the chart. Several threads ago, I posted that link to show that if you look at the data from the next week, the last point on the chart which was week 10 of 2020, changes from 2258 to 3092.
I suggested that there was a delay getting the death certificates to the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). I thought at the time that it might be a week or 2, but according to NCHS it takes 8 weeks to be 75% complete.
So, if you were to load the latest data (by changing the url above to end in Data17.csv, istead of Data12.csv, you would have the following new points to graph:
Week 10 3712 (this is the last one on the chart where it was 2258)
Week 11 3669
Week 12 4129
Week 13 5580 (first one to go to the chart's top)
Week 14 8629 (way off the chart)
Week 15 9563 (the peak)
Week 16 6917 (still off the chart)
Week 17 2214 (will go up when data arrives)
So, you can see that if the chart were created today, it would give the opposite impression of pneumonia deaths going off the charts in the other direction. I'm not sure why Q posted this chart. The one he posted before it, does contain the caveat about the significant time delay for getting complete data. I don't think the chart is useful to show low points, unless you discard the last 8 weeks at least. It is useful to show the values going off the top of the chart, since the numbers only go up as more data comes in.