More people in the U.S. have died from COVID-19 compared to the number of people who died from H3N2.
But globally they have not. The reasons that this is so in the US are likely myriad, just as they were in Italy, another country particularly hard hit by the virus. This article gives some enlightening points on just that:
and, btw, Nation of Change is emphatically not a rightwing conspiracy-chasing site.
Globally, other countries are supposedly doing a better job of managing the situation than the United States. Even then, many people believe it’s likely that countries like China are actually downplaying their numbers.
