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With many excellent efforts at containment in parts of the country, and mediocre efforts in other parts of the country, the forces driving the US numbers are very complex and not meaningful to look at in total.

Statistics are only helpful to people who understand the explanations for the data.

They only make sense one area at a time.

That is the big mistake the flu bros make. Understanding complex data requires careful analysis and reasoning. Without that you are left with meaningless debating points—spin.

Dr. Birx predicts up to 200,000 U.S. coronavirus deaths 'if we do things almost perfectly'

The White House coronavirus response coordinator said Monday that she is "very worried about every city in the United States" and projects 100,000 to 200,000 American deaths as a best case scenario.

In an interview on "TODAY," Dr. Deborah Birx painted a grim message about the expected fatalities, echoing that without any measures they could hit as high as 2.2 million, as coronavirus cases continue to climb throughout the country.

NBC News

These lookner posts help to give actual explanations for local outbreaks, not just meaningless numbers:

Church service in Florida (yesterday)

https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1244312506819964931

45 singers in a choir in Washington have coronavirus or are ill with symptoms, and two have died

https://twitter.com/lookner/status/1244477344477253633

38 sailors have now tested positive for Covid-19 aboard aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt: U.S. officials

Early last week the first three cases were discovered.

Pentagon said Saturday 112 U.S. Navy sailors have coronavirus worldwide — 34% are aboard the aircraft carrier.

https://twitter.com/LucasFoxNews/status/1244242415353036801

When a 62-year-old man in Albany, Ga., died in February, close to 100 people attended his funeral. Dozens of them became sick. The pastor who delivered his eulogy died from coronavirus.

https://twitter.com/juliebosman/status/1244322680100306944