That is a near perfect fit of an exponential growth model - should be 2.6 days from Thursday to get from 1k to 2k. At this rate the millionth death from this will be in 23 days. 5 days after that will be the ten millionth death - which is about 5% of 70% of the US population.https://twitter.com/chrisjollyhale/status/1244045386341404680 …
This is an expression of how the exponential growth curve looks; plenty of complications in the real world.