There's light at the end of the tunnel.
The NYC statistics are a leading indicator. They provided a very large, hugely disproportionate, percentage of the deaths.
And now, their statistics on hospitalizations and deaths are dropping rapidly, with hospitalizations having peaked on April 6, and deaths peaked on April 7.
https://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/covid/covid-19-data.page
There's light at the end of the tunnel.