Not even close; in fact, and this has been borne out by a new analysis of COVID-19 death and regular death rates in the United States using government data.

As of mid-November, according to the most current information, the United States ranked first in coronavirus cases, new cases per day, and deaths. Using those metrics, Genevieve Briand, assistant program director of the Applied Economics master's degree program at Johns-Hopkins, "critically analyzed the effect of COVID-19 on U.S. deaths using data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in her webinar titled 'COVID-19 Deaths: A Look at U.S. Data,'" according to the institution's November 26 newsletter, which is archived here.

According to the data Briand accessed, between mid-March and mid-September, total deaths in the U.S. reached 1.7 million, of which 200,000 — some 12 percent —are COVID-19-related.