New York reclassified a bunch of folks that died over the last few days as COVID deaths under their new methodology, where all deaths are covid deaths if there is even a hint that they might have had COVID.
These are not deaths that occurred in a 24-hour period. These are deaths that were reported in a 24-hour period, and covers basically everyone with any respiratory illness who died at home on Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday.
Trying to compare that to a rate of deaths in hospital of likely or confirmed cases (the methodology used from last week until Tuesday), or hospital deaths of confirmed cases (the methodology used before last week) is meaningless.
If you change methodology, you really have to go back and recast historic numbers. But that isn't being done.