Yes, and if I look at the numbers it does look worse to me.
New York has a population of 20 million and it currently has a number of dead comparable to the UK with a population of 67 million, for example. New Jersey seems to fare worse than Switzerland with a comparable population, for another example.
By that metric, California is doing 10x better than Switzerland with 4x the population. And 10x better than the UK with 0.6x the population.
There are so many variables involved that it's hard to know how to rationally compare different regions. How much is demographics, population density, and other variables vs competence.
Europe is ahead of the US in this pandemic so it's not currently possible to say that somewhere in the US is doing better than a comparable location in Europe based on the raw numbers (for that one would need to look at stats relative to e.g. time since n cases).
On the other hand, it is possible to say if they seem to be doing worse.
Do they? Take the 5 major countries in western Europe - UK, France, Germany, Spain, and Italy. Together they have ~325M people, which is about the size of the US.
Both total cases and total deaths are higher than US. Total deaths is 4x worse. What numbers are you looking at?
New York has a population of 20 million and it currently has a number of dead comparable to the UK with a population of 67 million, for example. New Jersey seems to fare worse than Switzerland with a comparable population, for another example.