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  ...?
  It's surely not millions, it took US over a year to hit 1 million, China even at abysmal COVID rates would be the same order of magnitude as america in maybe winter of 2020. Ballpark 10,000 deaths.
context: Call me skeptic, but think that figure might be missing few zeros >
  
  It's likely missing thousands of people who happened to have Covid that died, which  China is attributing to other causes, like shortness of breath. >
  
  Thousands are too conservative. Right now in Shanghai, the government requisitions storage facilities for tuna and salmon to store the  bodies. Even ocean freight containers are used for this purpose.