Well, no surprise. NONE of the CoVid-19 death numbers are truly accurate. Someone calculated that about 200 people A DAY were dying at home in NYC, and remained uncounted in official numbers -- that was based on the startling ~increase~ above baseline of 911/Paramedic calls to homes which found someone DOA.
You think China's numbers are accurate? Or Iran's? Iran was claiming "12 deaths" nationwide when an official in Qom stated there were already ~50~ deaths in that city alone. And that was in February.

But then, who expects perfect information in such a wild & fast-moving situation? -- Esp. with limited testing capability? And repressive governments like China, Iran, Brazil's, or our own? It's not surprising in the least.

@1 -- Well, no, mortality is not that high. Because the number of "Reported Cases" is not accurate either and is probably very low, largely because many people have mild symptoms & never get tested, and many others are asymptomatic and don't even know they have it

(...and will NEVER know, because we STILL don't have effectively coordinated, centrally-managed widespread testing, as the current "administration" (if you can call it that) abdicated their responsibility for following that part of their own pandemic-response plan, choosing to use the drama as an opportunity for graft & simpleton power-games. )

Someone calculated the actual number of infected is between 5x-10x of the Reported Cases... based on a lot of post-facto data from Wuhan.

The mortality is not 1-in-8, don't fret.

That does mean that today there are probably 25-50 million people infected worldwide, of which 7.5-10 million are infected in the USA.