Looking at the numbers in the posted chart - I don’t 20X anything.
What am I missing?
Those 3 years illustrate the official national rates of 2017-2019. He’s saying that the figures he is getting from one (or more) funeral homes for 6 months of 2022 show a rate that is 20x greater.
As a statistical comparison it has definite shortcomings. But even accounting for variations between funeral homes in different parts of the country, the probability that the ones to which he is referring could be the only ones showing that sort of increase is extraordinarily unlikely.
I’m with you both: Where are the numbers that support the 20X assertion?