That will show the real trend.

there are sites that have the log plots - https://coronavirus.1point3acres.com/en - easy to switch to log view

after 8 weeks - self isolation will turn into desperation, civil unrest and riots. Social safety nets will fail. Cats ain't going sit inside indefinitely. You can bet on that.

given the gaps in testing - the earlier numbers were probably a lot less accurate (ie if everyone who had symptoms was actually tested the number would have been a lot higher than 500). The later numbers are probably starting to approximate reality since testing has gotten to be more complete but with all of the news reports that some people with flu symptoms are still not being tested, the numbers today are still probably an under-count just not as bad of an under-count as March 8.

on a log curve is pretty much a straight line.

The rate of infection is increasing at a multiplier.

The rate of testing would have to increase faster than that multiplier to actually be more accurate.

If the rate of growth in infections is greater than the rate of growth in testing, it could actually be undercounting worse

That was when it was around 1000 maybe. It seemed unthinkable at the time that 100,000 people would be infected in a few weeks but we’ll probably be there by the end of next week.