As long as the number of deaths per day keep increasing, much of the country will remain shut down. The US went from 268 deaths on Thursday to 410 deaths on Friday (yesterday). For the sake of counting for the world statistics, these are as of 00:00 GMT (20:00 EDT). Current count for today is 292 (known). Pro-rated for four more hours (GMT) would put the US at 350, but these counts may not be the most up to date. As it is, it doesn’t appear we are flattening the curve just yet, but it also doesn’t seem like we are exponentially spiking.
606,880 cancer deaths in the US in 2019, or average of 1662 per day. It’s been 1500+/daily for decades.
Well, NY updated their counts and now today’s death count stands at 506 (with 35 minutes remaining, pending late updates), so we are indeed still spirally upward.