And if it keeps up, by the end of May we will see over 2 billion (with a "b") deaths, in the United States alone! That translates to over 40 billion (again, with a "b") in the entire world.
Oh, NO!
Regarding the doubling, i.e., exponential growth:
I’ve been going to the Johns Hopkins coronavirus site and clicking on the name of a country in the list on the left side. When you do that, the graph on the bottom right shows confirmed cases in that country. In most cases it shows an upward bending curve.
But if you change the view by clicking on “daily increase” under that graph, it shows a bar graph of new cases each day. Some of the countries are getting interesting now, with new cases either leveling off or even falling (although I distrust weekend numbers).
Just something to watch if you’re interested. What we’re looking for is the graph of a country to start to look like China’s, only with real numbers not fake ones. It appears that the doubling every two to three days doesn’t last very long once the cases start accelerating upward—about two to three weeks before they start leveling off in most countries.