[leereeves]

Yes, there was a spike of 56 new deaths reported on the 15th.

Due to reopening? More likely due to noisy data. There was a similar spike of 50 new deaths reported on April 30th, before Texas reopened.

And after the 15th, the numbers reverted to the mean: 33 on the 16th, 31 on the 17th.

https://covidtracking.com/data/state/texas

[makomk]

The US media don't care about details like this, because they're not interested in actually informing people. They've been doing things like cherry-picking clusters related to meat processing plants that weren't covered by the lockdown anyway, blaming them on the lockdown being lifted, and wording their headlines to make it sound like there was a state-wide spike - and there's a very noticeable partisan bias in which states they're doing this to as well.