There's this notion the US is lagging behind Europe in death rates and is "catching up", but I'm not sure that's true.

Yesterday was a really bad day for the US. 2nd-highest number of deaths reported here. But a lot of European countries were worse on a per capita basis.

Here's a selection:

Belgium 17.7 deaths per 1M people yesterday
Spain 16.0
UK 13.8
Sweden 9.5
Italy 9.0
France 8.3
Netherlands 8.6
Switzerland 8.6

USA 5.9

Ireland 5.1
Portugal 4.3
Germany 4.0
Austria 3.4
Denmark 2.6
Norway 2.2
Finland 1.1
Poland 0.9

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/