For all you number trackers, I've started to better understand some of the reasons that the numbers seem to be so inconsistent across sites as I try and keep up on what's happening in Colorado. I started digging yesterday when I saw the chart on the IHME site that showed Colorado had 63 deaths on April 21, which is nearly double our previous high:
So to try and figure out what was going on, I looked at our state health department's site, and found this chart, which shows 4 on the 21st.
While it's tough to decipher why there's such a huge difference, it's obvious that the CDPHE data makes a ton more sense. My guess is that IMHE is just assigning values to when they get posted online, which doesn't necessarily line up anywhere close to when the deaths actually happened.
I don't know if I have much of a point to this except to suggest that people not get too hung up on the numbers you're finding online for any individual day since they're driven by reporting periods as much as they are by how many people actually die each day.