We have an ongoing example of how this may playout in the US by looking at Italy.
They are SIMILAR in social norms to the US. Its not apples to apples comparison but it'll do.
Here is Italy's corona virus cases. As you can see they are worse off than USA. The US has about 3k cases. That's about equivalent to March 4th on the Italy timeline. So Italy is ~ 10 days ahead of us on the cornavirus curve.
Remember Italy implemented a coutrywide lockdown on March 9th.
Here are the deaths in Italy. On March 4th Italy had ~105 deaths. US is at 63. So US is a little better off than Italy but its close in comparitive nubmers.
Italy, 10 days ahead of us on the curve, now has 25k cases and 1800 deaths.
Assuming the US does not implement any measures to offset the spread until on or after March 19th (10 days after Italy implemented their lockdown) we will probably be on the same curve as Italy. I.e. near 2000 deaths and climbing by March 24th. And it could be worse if we wait to implement measures until after the 19th.
Unless we do something now, we are going to likely live the same curve as Italy, unfortunately.