Comment by DennisP

The death curve is also quite steep. Seven days ago we were at 57 total deaths, now it's 276. Daily deaths has gone from eight people seven days ago to 49.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

Here's a good article on estimating current number of cases from number of deaths:

https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-act-today-or-peop...