You can't compare the US and UK situations.
UK is vaccinated with AZ which doesn't work so well with India variant. Then there is a lot of first shoot but not a lot of fully vaccinated, like Canada in sort of.
Also, it is inevitable that the number of case will rise after the lockdown end, because even vaccinated people can be contaminated. The best parameter to monitor is the death from now.
From the U.K. here. No you can’t compare the 2 countries because we have a higher percentage of adults vaccinated with a first shot (74.8%) currently only available to aged 30+. The rate of fully vaccinated is increasing rapidly now standing at 48.5%. Between 25th and 31st May there were 58 deaths in the U.K.. During the same period there were 870 people admitted to hospital with coronavirus. The AstraZeneca vaccine seems to be working very well, thank you as the majority of deaths and cases are, so we have been told, though not exclusively, amongst the non vaccinated.
Overall summary of the respiratory viruses in circulation within the UK
coronavirus.data.gov.uk
So let’s compare those figures to those of the USA.
Total doses given = 295 m fully vaccinated 41.2% - a lower% than the U.K.!
Couldn’t find the figures for comparable week but between 19- 25 th May 3122 people admitted to hospital, which assuming our population is about 1/5 of the USA is lower than ours, last week was bad! Deaths however we had 58 deaths and you had 438. 58 x5 =290 so our comparable death rate is 66.2% of yours.
The week’s key data, narrative interpretations, & visualizations.
www.cdc.gov
If we are all honest with ourselves, although things are improving, neither country is completely out of the woods yet.
The Indian variant (apologies to India for calling it that) is what is driving cases in the U.K. and is now in the USA in a small number of cases. Let’s hope that remains the case. We are due to remove restrictions no earlier than the 21st June but this will be reassessed one week before that taking into account the latest figures for vaccination progress, hospitalisation and deaths which seems a very reasonable approach to me.
We should not be trying to score points off each other or criticising quality of vaccines. We should be focusing on getting as many people as possible, throughout the world, effectively vaccinated. Then and only then can we truly relax. However we should also celebrate our triumphs along the way!