New cases are not meaningless. They might just not be 1:1 comparable in numeric values to the numbers a couple of months before. But if you are an an exponential raise, even pretty large factors are caught up with literally within a couple of days.
The post kind of goes from straight talk about deaths to "and here are stats" which are not at all showing deaths. Comes off a little dishonest to me. And the stat on deaths being "40% above the U.S. equivalent" just seem plain wrong. See the comments on the post for that.