The backlog would have cleared Monday. The fact the the positive % is going up is really bad.
Yeah...I was mainly trying to grab on to any possible excuse so I don't put too much emphasis on one day, which is the worst report we've had in several weeks. (Also, as information for anyone not looking at these numbers daily: the report lags a day, so that means yesterday's report included the backlog from Monday)
Also a bad sign...if you look at the data by state, there has been an upward trend in deaths in the big hot spots (Arizona, Texas, and Florida) for a couple of weeks. So it's pretty clear in those places that the death rate hasn't kept falling despite the surge in cases.