In fairness NY has been bouncing around between 800-1000 cases the last several days. 1000 is just a number, but I get the point you are trying to make in light of comments made by someone recently so it's fair. Ontario/Quebec's cases have also started to accelerate which tell us there has been some seasonality at work in New York's numbers. Sweden is in the middle of a bump...it's small right now but we'll see how far it goes up. It seems like Spain's wave has begun to crest as well, particularly in Madrid. Now they'll be the argument over whether that's due to more severe restrictions, people freaking out so distancing more, or whether it's because they've gone from around 14% seroprevalence to maybe around 30%
Death and hospitalizations, though, still much lower than initial wave in both Europe and US. At this point it's clear something a foot whether masks lowering viral loads (doubt it's this...the main source of transmission is still private gatherings/in the home and people don't use them there at least not enough to stop a significant bump), the virus weakening, or T-cell immunity, or perhaps some combination of 2 or 3.