I'm using worldometers, could well be other places have different numbers (maybe more accurate). In which case, they may not be ahead just yet, but give them another week.
https://www.google.com/search?q=covid+numbers+usa&rlz=1C1GCEA_enUS879US879&oq=covid&aqs=chrome.0.69i59j0l4j69i60l3.1615j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&safe=active&ssui=on
Regardless of where you get them, a 5 sec simple math task will show you that your statement is wrong and regardless is close enough that it can't be used to support any argumentative case.
Clearly it does matter where you get them, because if you get them from here:
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countriesThe USA is ahead...
The USA also still has ongoing measures, but they're only being done half heartedly, which is why they remain at a very high level of cases and deaths.
They also started their curve later than the UK.
Personally I don't think consistently high death rate is particularly good. There's still no evidence of them slowing down. Yes, their case numbers have dropped. Oddly enough, that drop coincides with the White House removing the CDC from data collation process, and bringing it all in house.
They have just had their worst quarter on record, and it was a bad one.
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/30/economy/us-economy-2020-second-quarter/index.htmlSo there's hardly any argument for their economical advantage in the route they've taken either.
Basically it's mostly been half arsed, and the results are showing for that. Given all the numbers now go through the whitehouse and no longer the CDC, I'd not be surprised to see further improvement, right up until November. Then after the elections, a correction may be incoming...
The USA had months more to start reacting to this, especially given their large population, and did basically nothing useful.
As someone cleverer than me wrote.
Covid spread is mostly based on two things:
1. How dense the population is.
2. How dense the population is.