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I just looked at the Worldometer stats for eleven of the countries with fairly high CV cases-per-million. The US is unique in that our daily new cases and new deaths have been on a plateau for more than a month, with no downward trend.

Most of the countries reached a plateau that lasted one or two weeks, followed by a steady decline in new cases and new deaths. In most of those countries, the daily new cases and new deaths are less than 30% of what they were at the peak, sometimes less than 20%. Even Sweden looks like it might have peaked already, but it's a little too soon to tell for sure.

The only country I checked that resembles the US is the UK, which had a long peak of three weeks, and only a recent slight decline in deaths and new cases. Deaths are still running at about 60% of the peak total.

In the US, our deaths have dropped considerably from the peak in the last two days, but that's happened before. Last Sunday and Monday were less than 50% of the peak, but then they jumped way up again until Friday and yesterday. It's been frustrating; I keep looking for a consistent, sustained downward trend, but it hasn't happened.

Either the shutdowns haven't worked as advertised, the numbers are inflated (which some are claiming), or our doctors are using less effective treatments than doctors in other countries.

It’s important to note, when comparing the US to EU countries,
That countries in the EU aren’t equivalent to the US as a whole.
Countries in the EU are more equivalent to US states.
Just as EU countries respond differently, so do US states.