With all of the media attention surrounding Dabo the last few months this doesn’t surprise me. When you’re on top people love to see you fall. Dabo will adjust. He does his best work when people doubt him and this will be no different.
You’re using provisional data which lags way behind as noted in the link provided. The CDC is still showing 60k plus deaths see below.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/cases-in-us.html?fbclid=IwAR2YGdSiJ1zk6mktakCLsCqjU-tEq9XsvLMK2fGG0vmHPIsAdMgl8C13cOU