I may be wrong, but I don’t think the “daily” death totals mean they all died yesterday. In Florida, for example, death totals are tallied daily, however, depending on circumstances, deaths may have occurred anywhere from weeks to months prior, but are logged on a daily basis.
Would be nice to get some real, solid numbers from somewhere.
You'd think "How many died of this disease today?" would be an easy enough data point to tell.