The Johns Hopkins University coronavirus tracker surpassed 7 million cases in the United States today, keeping the nation’s status as the country with the most cases. Two percent of the American population have had confirmed cases of the coronavirus.
The JHU tracker also calculates more than 203,000 fatalities in the US attributable to the coronavirus. That gives the United States a case fatality rate of 2.9%; that puts the US in bottom half of the nations with the highest number of infections.
According to worldometers.info, the US has the 10th highest per capita fatality rate and the 12th highest infection rate worldwide. If you only count nations with more than 500,000 in population, the US is 8th in per capita fatalities and 9th in infection rate.