The official death count is barely above 100,000. No one uses those data, and that is not the source of the 2 million figure. We largely understand the failure

The official death count is barely above 100,000. No one uses those data, and that is not the source of the 2 million figure. We largely understand the failures that killed a million people in the US; China was not confronted with the same issue that would have resulted in well over 4 million deaths there.