Mondays are typically high, getting the cases that happened over the weekend that weren’t logged into the system. (The weekend numbers have been low throughout).
As for numbers of cases, it means nothing unless they say how many tests were run, and then they should be reported as a percentage. As the days go by, the testing is running better with more kids, testing locations, etc.
I think a lot of states have the thing where the numbers coming off the weekend don’t look right.
Looking at the numbers nationally, I would expect deaths to be way, way down by the end of June. On May 6th, the daily number was 2700, yesterday it was 504 and the trend is consistently downward. New cases went from a daily high of 36,000 on April 24th to yesterday’s 18,586 - also on a downward trend.
Barring a real surge (not just one day jump or two) of second wave new cases, this things should mostly peter out before summer’s end - excluding the stray cases and nursing-home type flareups that will pop up. At least that’s my hopeful optimistic take right at this moment. Knocking on wood, keeping fingers crossed and sending a prayer up in the meantime.