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Hospitalizations are also up, so that means there really are more cases.
During the lockdown, 1.4 million health care workers were laid off, and many medical appointments, including treatments for cancer, were canceled or postponed.
Source: Here are 150 reasons why I’m against the COVID-19 lockdowns
Now that the lockdown is over, people are getting those treatments. Some of those people are testing positive for COVID-19. But the actual medical issues that sent them to the hospital were often other things that had nothing to do with COVID-19. Hospital admissions are up because the lockdown has ended, not because more people are going to the hospital specifically for COVID-19. In fact, COVID-19 daily deaths keep falling, according to Worldometer.
Source: United States Coronavirus: 2,223,852 Cases and 119,556 Deaths - Worldometer