Let's just throw around blatant speculation, that will help.
Speculation aside that is extremely unlikely to be the case for a variety of clinical reasons
"In fact, officials would later discover through testing, the virus had already contributed to the deaths of two people, and it would go on to kill 20 more in the Seattle region over the following days."
The US has failed to do any significant level of testing given its population, so it's understandable why many people are not confident in the official figures, especially when it becomes apparent infections have been running unchecked for weeks before testing started.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/10/us/coronavirus-testing-de...
As stated before that is absolutely false which is why those cases were caught. Will data be imperfect, yes, but that doesn't mean we should start throwing around Chinese propaganda.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/conspiracy...