# Fatality Choppiness **URL:** \ **Category:** The Quarantine Zone\ **Tags:** covid-quarantine\ **Created:** [July 16, 2020, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fatality-choppiness/915520 "2020-07-16T19:51:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 10
**Author:** ![Sigene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df788c/32.png) [@Sigene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigene)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2020, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fatality-choppiness/915520/10 "2020-07-21T14:32:12Z")
I noticed the same thing back in May, and had gotten some suggested reasons > [@weekly oscillation of new daily cases](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekly-oscillation-of-new-daily-cases/853121): > > I’ve noted that there seems to be about a 7 day oscillating rise and fall of daily reported cases on the worldometer site for the U.S. [United States COVID - Coronavirus Statistics - Worldometer](https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/) It appears a bit in the daily death’s chart as well Is there an explanation for this? I’m going to guess its an artifact in how cases are reported rather than real. Or its just that sometimes data shows patterns where there really aren’t one. It seems that every friday there is a bit of a spike in rep… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fatality-choppiness/915520)._