To put this in perspective, I've been crunching the numbers for over a month now. Initially, around the time our state had ordered isolation measures and Trump was musing about re-opening in time for "full churches on Easter," the rate indicated that we'd hit the million mark on April 6th. As people (and state/local governments) started taking self-isolation regulations seriously, the date for hitting that mark began to slide further away, first to mid-month, then to around the 21st, now, the 27th or 28th. But even delaying the inevitable can't put it off forever. At the rate we're going right now, we'll hit two million total cases by mid-May. Of course, by that time, most of those total cases will have already reached a resolution, either recovery or something more permanent and dire, so that the actual current case-load may well be a million or less by then. Of course, that assumes people will keep up the social-distancing...and we all know what's going to happen among the more "FREEEEEEEEEDUMB!!!"-loving induhviduals out there, particularly when said induhviduals hold political office and can order their jurisdictions to re-open.
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