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prove it. post the stats.AZ deaths are on the decline. But, AZ does have a pretty high death rate because we have so many old people. They are the ones dying. 65 and over make up over 70% of the deaths in AZ.
The calculation method you are using only goes up, you are using total deaths. If they only had one death added in a month, you’d be saying their death rate per million is still higher than everyone else’s.
The calculation I'm using is death rate. All state's death rates only go up. The calculation I'm doing compares which ones are rising faster. As I've shown, Arizona's death rate is rising the fastest.
If they only had one death in a month, then their death rate would go up very little. It wouldn't even go up by +1. If that were the case, then their death rate wouldn't be rising faster than everyone else. All other states have a higher increase in their death rate than +1. That would make them the slowest rising death rate if only one person died in a month.