Maybe this will help.
The US is running about two weeks behind Italy, therefore our numbers are lagging behind that country. I saw where someone had mentioned this earlier, so I'm going to add a couple of charts to help illustrate this.
Looking at the chart below, you will see that the US has already passed the daily death toll of where Italy was two weeks ago. Italy's daily death toll is now in decline, while ours continues to increase substantially each day. To compare The US to Italy, you have to look at where our numbers stand today, and compare them to where Italy was two weeks ago.
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In this next chart it is clear to see that The US is way ahead of any county at the same point from the time it recorded it's 20th case than any other country in the world. (For example, the US reached 100,000 confirmed cases in only 14 days after the 20th case was reported, where Italy took around 40 days to reach 100,000 cases)
Deaths lag behind cases by around two weeks, so the death toll two weeks from now in the US is going to be very high compared to other countries worldwide.
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Two weeks ago Italy had around 47,000 cases and around 5,000 deaths. At the time of this post, the US has around 321,000 cases (Roughly 7 times the number as Italy two weeks ago) and around 9,100 deaths (Roughly 2 times the number as Italy two weeks ago). While it's true that the US has a higher population than Italy, 327 million compared to 60 million, even if the US doesn't see another case between today and two weeks from now, with the current fatality rate of the coronavirus, our number of deaths will easily be 3 to 5 times higher than where Italy stands today. Unfortunately the number of cases continue to rise by tens of thousands each day (34,000+ yesterday), so our death toll may end up being more than 5 times that of Italy.
