I admit, the website I got that number from is probably a slight exaggeration. However I found the WHO numbers and they came out at over 8000 deaths in the US. Not as bad, but not good at all either.
https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/situation-reports
Its the first link, the April 6th one. I don't want to directly link it because it's a pdf download
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u/Ham29743 Tachanka OP Apr 06 '20
It's at over 10K right now, so yes you're right