Well, NY updated their counts and now today’s death count stands at 506 (with 35 minutes remaining, pending late updates), so we are indeed still spirally upward.
It should also be noted heading into today, NY state had 32% of all reported COVID-19. So far for today, it’s 55%.
The number of New Deaths Per Day is a lagging indicator of the current number of New Infections Per Day. It lags behind by about 20 days.
A better indicator are the number of New Cases Per Day which has been relatively flat over the last 3 days, at about 17K, 19K and 19K.
Also the number of New Hospitalizations are down over the last three days at about 3.9K, 3.6K and 3.0K.