I looked through today’s JHU data just uploaded. It looks like a one day reporting anomaly where federal facility data was suddenly added to the data totals. The moving average strategy spreads this over several days making it look worse.
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caseinfo=Import["https://raw.githubusercontent.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19/master/csse_covid_19_data/csse_covid_19_time_series/time_series_covid19_confirmed_US.csv"];caseinfo[[1]][[-1]]usCaseData=AssociationThread[First@caseinfo,#]&/@Rest[caseinfo]/.""Missing[]//Dataset;
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4/21/20
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recUS=usCaseData[All,{"Province_State","Admin2","4/18/20","4/19/20","4/20/20","4/21/20"}];
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recUS1=recUS@Select[#"4/21/20">6&&#"4/20/20"0&]
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recUS1[Total,"4/21/20"]
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11750
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deathinfo=Import["https://raw.githubusercontent.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19/master/csse_covid_19_data/csse_covid_19_time_series/time_series_covid19_deaths_US.csv"];deathinfo[[1]][[-1]]usDeathData=AssociationThread[First@deathinfo,#]&/@Rest[deathinfo]/.""Missing[]//Dataset;
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4/21/20
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recUSDeaths=usDeathData[All,{"Province_State","Admin2","4/18/20","4/19/20","4/20/20","4/21/20"}];
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recUSDeaths1=recUSDeaths@Select[#"4/21/20">6&&#"4/20/20"0&]
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recUSDeaths1[Total,"4/21/20"]
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641