This is totally at odds with the data. The UK, France, Spain, and Italy, among others, have higher deaths per capita than the US.
IMO, the US will almost certainly make up a lot of ground on the deaths per capita metric (or leapfrog entirely), given the explosion of new cases starting in June and the lagging growth in deaths that comes after cases. Scroll down to the "Deaths" section with the weekly per capita "heat spectrum" of sorts, and the US recently has reached red hot over the past few weeks, while European counterparts have been much cooler: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/world/coronavirus-m...
Other EU countries like Germany, Austria or Poland fared much better than Spain, France, UK and Italy.
Maybe different cultures (e.g. how people relate, how compliant they are, how many people willingly ignore measures, etc.) also play a role.
All of this is completely unworkable in the US.
With containment, everything else is possible (healthcare system not overloaded, economy can be opened up, schools can reopen, etc.).
The US has capitulated completely, and even containment isn't really on the table nationally; on a state-by-state basis, some states may achieve a level of containment, but others are simply not even trying (or like Georgia, actively banning containment measures like local mask enforcement orders).