As bad as the situation in the US is at the moment, and it is bad, it is not quite as bad as some people are saying. For example, the claim that more than 3,000 people are dying per day, is not yet true. Currently, it is only known that about 2,400 people are dying per day in the US, but this figure is delayed somewhat.
The disparity is due to the fact that people confuse the number of people announced to have died on a day as equal to the number of people who have died within the previous 24 hours, which is not the case. It takes a few days, on average, for a death to make it into the daily figures. You may have noticed that the death figures drop dramatically on weekends. This is not because the coronavirus takes a break, but because many staff involved in tallying the dead do. The backlog of deaths not recorded over this period are then recorded later in the week. The reporting is therefore five days high and two days low every week. There was also the recent Thanksgiving holiday where the reporting was down over several days.
Britain currently has 941 deaths per million from Covid-19, as against the US's 919. Our rate of new cases, hospitalizations, and deaths are all trending upward, despite England having ended its second national lockdown on the 2nd of December. The number of new cases seemed to reach a minimum on the 28th of November, before the end of the lockdown, and since then have been on the way up again. It looks like people therefore started to ignore the lockdown before it was over. Our current rate of deaths is around 430 per day. Accounting for the difference in populations between the US and UK, if the same rate of death were occurring in the US as in the UK, that would be around 2,100 deaths per day--not much behind the US's current rate. And that is all we could get the figure down to after a month-long lockdown. It is now trending back upwards, and the national governments of the four nations of the United Kingdom have all agreed a suspension of measures allowing people to see their families at Christmas, i.e. they are creating a super-spreader event at Christmas, when the situation is likely already to be pretty dire.