I've created a bit of code that animates to the desired value, (with comma's) ans is working correctly. What I can't work out is how to make the animation start in the viewport. I've looked at other answers, but I can't seem to get it to work. Thoughts or suggestions are greatly appreachiated.
var startDate = new Date('01-01-2021');
var today = new Date();
var diff = Math.floor((today - startDate)/(1000*60*60*24))
var dd = String(today.getDate()).padStart(2, '0');
var mm = String(today.getMonth() + 1).padStart(2, '0');
var yyyy = today.getFullYear();
today = mm + '/' + dd + '/' + yyyy;
var answer = diff * 134256;
function commaSeparateNumber(val){
while (/(\d+)(\d{3})/.test(val.toString())){
  val = val.toString().replace(/(\d)(?=(\d\d\d)+(?!\d))/g, "$1,");
}
return val;
}
document.getElementById("CCalc").innerHTML = 
parseFloat(commaSeparateNumber(answer).replace(/,/g, ''));
$(".fig-number").each(function () {
$(this)
  .prop("Counter", 0)
  .animate(
    {
      Counter: $(this).text()
    },
    {
      duration: 3000,
      easing: "swing",
      step: function (now, tween) {
        // Check added for decimal number
        if(parseInt(tween.end) == parseFloat(tween.end)){
            var number = Math.ceil(now);
          $(this).text(number.toLocaleString());
        }
      },
    }
  );
});<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js">. </script>
<p id="CCalc" class="fig-number">39471264</p> 
     
    