Your ignoring population size and focusing on totals. We are talking about the USA overall. According to https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ https://www.

Your ignoring population size and focusing on totals. We are talking about the USA overall. According to https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ as of now: Country, Deaths / 1m pop, Cases / 1m pop USA 171, 3,045 Spain 503, 4,907 Italy 446, 3,298 Sure if you cherry pick the worst city in the US and compare it to Italy or Spain then yes you can make it look like there are more cases in the US and be technically correct but overall the US is doing better then Italy and Spain.