Deaths in the entire United States "involving Covid" equal the number of deaths in NYC at its peak/ CDC

The CDC provides updated US death data on 7/24/20 "involving Covid" (2nd column) @ https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/index.htm

Deaths in the US have been FLAT or DECREASING over the last five weeks. Why aren't you hearing this? Because the media want to instill panic so they talk about rising cases (many asymptomatic, based on often inaccurate lab tests).  We are not having "3 New Yorks" as Dr. Birx claimed.  The fact is that the entire US is now having as many deaths per week as New York City had during its peak in early April.  
Got that?  The entire US equals ONE New York.  See CDC data below. 

Table 1. Deaths involving coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), pneumonia, and influenza reported to NCHS by week ending date, United States. Week ending 2/1/2020 to 8/1/2020.*

Updated Aug 4, 2020

Week ending date in which the death occurred	All Deaths involving COVID-19 (U07.1)1	Deaths from All Causes	Percent of Expected Deaths2	Deaths involving Pneumonia, with or without COVID-19, excluding Influenza deaths (J12.0–J18.9)3	Deaths involving COVID-19 and Pneumonia, excluding Influenza (U07.1 and J12.0–J18.9)3	All Deaths involving Influenza, with or without COVID-19 or Pneumonia (J09–J11), includes COVID-19 or Pneumonia4	Deaths involving Pneumonia, Influenza, or COVID-19 (U07.1 or J09–J18.9)5
Total Deaths	140,571	1,576,925	108	148,732	61,132	6,589	233,790
2/1/2020	0	58,456	99	3,785	0	479	4,264
2/8/2020	1	59,206	99	3,789	0	520	4,310
2/15/2020	0	58,522	99	3,812	0	555	4,367
2/22/2020	5	58,597	101	3,680	1	563	4,247
2/29/2020	7	58,941	103	3,806	4	651	4,460
3/7/2020	35	59,104	102	3,931	17	628	4,576
3/14/2020	52	57,894	101	3,918	27	612	4,554
3/21/2020	565	58,643	103	4,510	251	551	5,368
3/28/2020	3,147	62,641	112	6,149	1,423	440	8,263
4/4/2020	9,946	71,881	129	9,866	4,728	477	15,325
4/11/2020	16,090	78,642	142	11,932	7,193	472	20,961
4/18/2020	16,987	76,313	141	11,348	7,281	265	21,130
4/25/2020	15,333	73,329	136	10,310	6,571	143	19,119
5/2/2020	13,046	68,716	128	8,884	5,482	65	16,493
5/9/2020	11,059	66,208	126	7,759	4,668	47	14,187
5/16/2020	9,060	63,810	122	6,670	3,733	20	12,014
5/23/2020	7,072	60,842	117	5,794	2,935	23	9,950
5/30/2020	6,030	58,736	113	5,171	2,442	11	8,770
6/6/2020	4,899	57,641	110	4,785	2,103	11	7,592
6/13/2020	4,103	56,261	109	4,398	1,828	11	6,681
6/20/2020	3,676	55,336	107	4,175	1,554	6	6,303
6/27/2020	3,553	54,340	106	3,945	1,461	10	6,046
7/4/2020	4,005	53,842	104	4,061	1,772	4	6,295
7/11/2020	4,629	53,489	104	4,625	2,197	7	7,064
7/18/2020	4,608	49,076	96	4,326	2,198	11	6,744
7/25/2020	2,405	35,571	70	2,708	1,130	6	3,986
8/1/2020	258	10,888	21	595	133	1	721