US COVID-19 cases pass 650,000

We are well past 650,000 COVID-19 cases and still climbing rapidly, according to WorldOMeter.com. The good news, is that the number of new cases each day is now hovering around 30,000, which means the case number curve is now mostly linear, instead of exponential, as it was earlier. It feels intuitively obvious, that we can attribute the leveling-off of daily new cases, to the preventative measures everyone is supposed to be taking, such as washing hands to protect ourselves, wearing homemade or even improvised masks to protect others, staying at home except for essential activities, and social distancing when out and around other people.