and then you move the decimal over 2 places to show the percent. So we are both wrong (my decimal should have been over 1 more place to the left).
In six weeks, the virus has killed roughly .027% of the country (so 6 weeks already got us a quarter of the way to your ".1%". "and falling" is a very uncertain claim to make when we have over a million active cases right now. we continue to add 20k+ cases/day. .001*20,000=20. You're mixing your numbers. The death rate on closed cases in the U.S. is at around 22%. Even if that falls to something nice and low like, idk, 6%, if we add 20k cases/day for the next 7.5 months until the end of the calendar year, you're still talking 278k deaths from those added cases alone, then hoping for that wild-guess low death rate on the currently-known cases, that's 64k deaths, added to the 89k deaths to date... You get... 431k deaths.
If .1% dies, that's 329,000 deaths. (basically, if the whole country were divided up into cities of 329k, we would have 1,000 of them). Let's hope that we are both wrong, because it looks like we are headed for something in the hundreds of thousands. If we keep losing 1k people/day, that's 232k before the end of the year. 232k + 89k gets us awfully close to that .1%.
source: worldometers.info