From https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/worldwide-graphs/#total-cases --- some very good news today! The "Bell-shape curve" is starting to form!
UPDATED MAY 2, 2020 - Extrapolated numbers of total cases for next 2-3 weeks, with striking results anticipated for USA, Russia, and the World for new cases and deaths, on an Excel Spreadsheet.
--Worldwide on MAY 7 may produce 4 million total cases, mostly being contributed by the USA (36K/day), Russian (8K/day), Brazil (6.7K/day) and UK (6.2K/day), with additional contributions by Spain, Peru, India, Turkey, Italy, Canada, etc.
--USA by May 16, adding 500,000 new cases, for a total 1.5 million cases, is the projected curve.
--USA deaths curve is anticipating doubling to only by 124,000 by June 1, but that might be too optimistic? Because of the desire to stop the lock down in many states, including armed protesters invading the State legislature in Michigan, by mid-to-late May the curve may start an upward trend again?
--My Excel chart is open, so that anyone can download it, and will be able to update it periodically as I have. The key to how I am charting the future numbers, is based on the days for the numbers to double. I am saving this spreadsheet in a earlier Excel file format, of XLS, so no matter how old your program is, you can still open the spreadsheet and use it. My spreadsheet is also available under my "Projects" listing on my Researchgate page.
--Page 5 of the spreadsheet, is another look at the pandemic numbers--the relationship between the number of cases, and what each country spends annually on their military, to see if excessive spending on militaries, removes funds from countries when needed for pandemics, and cripples their ability to respond quickly, for example.