With a population of 1.4 Billion, 15,000 deaths per day is NOTHING. At that rate, it would take 66 days to get to a million. To be on par with US deaths and since China is 4.5x more populated (1.4B vs 330M), in 9 months they “should” be at 4.5million. CALL ME THEN.
15K per day is not official. It is a guess by the BBC.
The US accumulated its death total so far with a significant portion 2020 pre-vax using weaker-than-China mitigation measures. China ruthlessly locked down pre-vax and added to their very strict Covid death criteria, reported few.
China’s present Covid death surge is post vax. So the comparison to US numbers, many of them pre-vax, cannot be pure. The triggering event in China is clearly the relaxing of mitigation measures, though we do know the US vax effectiveness fades, as does Sinovac. This confuses the results further.
Overall, these effects make comparisons doubtful.