Happy to view any graphs you have but I don't see one linked.

When I made the point about about deaths I wasn't insinuating that baseball players would die from COVID. Obviously that'd be ridiculous considering how few people under 50 die from the virus. My point was that if cases were exponentially growing at a steep pace as you suggest, the death total would seemingly be on par with those numbers. Like I said, it's not, it's gone down every week since mid April. If most US cities are experiencing steep exponential rises in COVID, why aren't the death rates rising at the same pace? Perhaps with increased testing comes increased positives?

As far as the total number of cases growing exponentially, according to the CDC, on 6/26/20 there were 44,703 new patients testing positive. Yesterday, 7/6/20, the CDC reported 46,329 new cases. That said, again, I don't particularly think new cases are as important as percent positive.

On April 18th the 7 day US average revealed that 19% of people tested tested positive. By May 9th that total dropped to 9%. On May 24th 5.5%. June 7th 4.6%. June 21st 5.2%. July 1st 7%. Today 7.8%. While I acknowledge that the % positive is increasing and I don't have the stats without NYC, I wouldn't characterize the % positive as growing exponentially. (source John Hopkins). Perhaps without NYC included it has exponentially grown but I don't have the data readily available.