It's really not that hard to imagine China having more cases...
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3076323/thir...
This would mean that the true number of confirmed cases in China is more than 50% higher than the official number.
They reported 81,285 cases. So, 81,285 + 43,000 = 124,285 cases.
And 3287 deaths. So, that’s a 2.64% death rate.
At these numbers, and with the virus now worldwide, I think China’s numbers are now irrelevant. It’s better to begin focusing our energies on mitigation and containment.
...it's not much of a leap to imagine that the reason is to hide the true number that were infected.
So, while they might have had more total cases, we likely have far more active cases.
Edit: Feel free to downvote this, but please offer an explanation as to precisely how China could be hiding an outbreak of any significant scale.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/nidhiprakash/coronaviru...
Ultimately, comparing year-over-year deaths may be a more accurate estimate than deaths of tested people.
And if anyone was going to decide not to try to ventilate every single case, it would be China, who already released a report that in 81% of cases, they die anyway.
That rate is low, but the denominator grows at astronomical speed; evidence of the high numerator is going to show up eventually.