this is just seasonal rise, esp for southern states.
it's also inflated by far more hospitals being open for electives and thus catching trace covid and nosocomial infection.
there seems to be a fair bit of what looks like "making up data" going on at the moment as well as the shell game of "call it seasonal pandemic in the lockdown states and "behavior" for southern seasonality if it makes florida and TX look bad.
that article does not seem to cite a rise vs a year ago and i have seen no data that would seem to support such a claim on any broad based basis.
US total is 20.5 vs 40.0 last year on same day, so it's down by a full 50% yoy.
https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToSelection=true&time=2020-03-01..latest&pickerSort=desc&pickerMetric=total_cases&Metric=Hospital+patients&Interval=7-day+rolling+average&Relative+to+Population=false&Align+outbreaks=false&country=~USA
this is just seasonal rise, esp for southern states.
it's also inflated by far more hospitals being open for electives and thus catching trace covid and nosocomial infection.
there seems to be a fair bit of what looks like "making up data" going on at the moment as well as the shell game of "call it seasonal pandemic in the lockdown states and "behavior" for southern seasonality if it makes florida and TX look bad.
same shabby tricks as last year.