Italy has less than one fifth the population of the United States. The pandemic in New York has been traced to Italy, and it is where most of our numbers for Covid-19 are situated,
Individual governors of the states must order things like Spring Break. The president has no authority to do this. New Orleans got its record outbreaks from Marti Gras activities, which the Mayor refused to cancel or shut down. Now, she blames the president for her own inactions. Some Democrats were still calling it a deflection hoax at that time.
Trump was assembling the Covid 19 Task Force in January and February, when Biden and the media was saying it was xenophobic and a distraction from the impeachment hearings. The Travel Ban from Wuhan, China and mandatory quarantine was ordered by the President on January 29. The Democrats didn’t even start blaming Trump for it until late February, like the third week.
In the U.S. if you die with COVID 19 or its antibodies, even if it wads a heart attack or stoke or fall from a ladder, or any illness at all, it counts as a COVID death.