If you have a source that lies about everything (like Mainland China) how can you trust anything that comes out of it ? Regarding infected, dead, or even the specific strain(s) of virus. This is being (self-reported -- albeit with a few observers which are shown things that the ChiComms want them to see) as a single type of variant by China--no one has any idea if this is true or not. Or in any way of the magnitude of the spread. There are gestappo-like tactics towards pretty much everything ranging from isolation camps, arrests, and punishment of information leakers. And given the close proximity, amount of infected, and lack of decent medical care it's hard to isolate what deaths occur as a result of infection vs. every OTHER pathogen that's present in a widespread quarantine of a whole bunch of people in close proximity. The disease seems to amplify vulnerability and severity to secondary infection.
The virus seems to have an immumnodepressive quality to it which is disconcerting; at least the variant that's been isolated outside of China in the 'normal' world. The mortality rate (again outside of the mainland) seems reasonably low but it also seems to be exceptionally contagious without a clear vector of transmission at this point.
I think once we get some good data from the 'normal' world of morbidity/mortality rates and transmission vectors things will begin to come back to normal. But we're still pretty far into I don't know land at this point.