There's this weird collective decision in the media to pretend that covid deaths are now rising when they have been steadily decreasing since May.https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1280193910770368512 …
I mean "cumulative death toll" as opposed to "daily death toll". One can be declining, while the other can't.
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I think it's fair to say "death toll" is generally cumulative by default and would need to be specified as "daily" if that was what was meant. Granted, this is an issue of idiomatic use, not technical definition.
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