A couple things to note here:

1. The virus is not doubling every day. It's doubling every 3-4 days right now. Hopefully social distancing slows it further.
2. Exponential growth doesn't usually start with the first case. If there's just one case, it's pretty easy to get that person isolated and then isolate the people they've been in contact with. Exponential growth starts when you get enough people with the virus that it becomes impossible to know who else has been exposed. This is the definition of "community transmission" which essentially means people are getting it in the community from an unknown source. Most regions in the world have now hit this point, but in the US, we really just got there about 1.5-2 weeks ago.

Oh and on a side note,why is it so hard to find website that are posting the death counts in the US? I've seen everything from 225-325, they're all over the map. Coincidence? I don't think so.

This is the one I'm using, it shows 388 US deaths as of right now. It seems to be the most up to date. You are seeing range of different death numbers because many websites have reporting lags. This one is updated every 15 minuets or so. It also posts links below to each death should anyone want to dig in deeper.

A note on the deaths. We have 30,000 cases in the US as of right now. Most of those are newly diagnosed cases in the last week or so. Average time to case resolution is 18 days. (Recovered or dead). I would not expect to see a significant spike in deaths for another 2 weeks or so. (Hopefully it doesn't happen at all).

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

Ok, I'll use your numbers. Doubling every 3-4 days and going for 3 weeks puts us at under 200 cases in the entire US. The math everyone is spewing isn't making sense. That's all I'm saying. What is the magical number to hit the exponential growth rate?

Yes, this is a potentially deadly virus (look at Italy), but what is being said and reported, is not what is actually happening. Nobody has any clue as to the number of infected. All we can do is look at what has happened in other countries that are farther along in this than us. Italy has had almost 5000 deaths out of a population of 60 million. 1/12,0000 people are dying from it. South Korea, 104 deaths out of 51 million or 1/490,000. Which model do we go off of?