The latest two-week period (July 22-Aug. 4) saw the highest number of COVID-19 deaths reported among Latino Americans at any point in the summer, and a 157% increase over the prior two-week span. However, some of the large spike in the latest period is due to Texas improving its data reporting and transparency. All told, roughly half of the change in Latino deaths recorded from July 22-Aug. 4 were due to our death tally for Texas alone (2,651 new), some of which may have occurred earlier in the summer. (Fewer than two-thirds of Texas’ total deaths had known race or ethnicity on July 21, but the reporting change resulted in more than 99 percentage of deaths now accounted for.) Still, even if we were to set all of Texas’ losses aside, deaths among Latinos have risen roughly back to the volume we saw in the two weeks following Memorial Day (May 25), completing the “U” shape.