Since you did what appears to be a knee jerk reaction, the whole point of the site I linked, is that the Hopkins numbers are based on *lies* by the Chicoms; further, that the Chicoms have a more accurate set of numbers (those known by China to have been killed by Coronavirus 2019-nCoV); and also that many have died of this virus, whose deaths are either not recorded or are reported as due to other causes.
In other words, it is not rumor mongering based on an accidental resemblance of two figures, which both approximately equal 24k.
That would be really bad news for China if the rumors are true. Also, is China using genetic testing to verify that people are actually infected with nCoV? The positive rate for the CDC genetic test is kind of low.
In other news the virus looks well contained within China.