There are still outbreaks that receive reporting, e.g. [1]. It's just not as big part of Western news feeds, (a) because there's so much going on and (b) because the limited data makes it hard to fit into reader-relevant coverage.
As far as the number itself goes: this article [2] is pretty polemic, but it does a good job of putting the number in the context of comparables from other countries. One thing discussed is that almost every country is underreporting COVID deaths due to systematic pressures, so journalists are in a bind about how to report.
While China is an extreme example, any site that wants to show you a table of data across time and regions would require infinite footnotes to describe ways the data might be right or wrong. Worldometer has a page that describes its methods [3], which basically says their policy is to aggregated data from official sources. I think that's reasonable, although I think they could use a bigger "this may be garbage in garbage out" banner so folks don't interpret carelessly.
As far as the number itself goes: this article [2] is pretty polemic, but it does a good job of putting the number in the context of comparables from other countries. One thing discussed is that almost every country is underreporting COVID deaths due to systematic pressures, so journalists are in a bind about how to report.
While China is an extreme example, any site that wants to show you a table of data across time and regions would require infinite footnotes to describe ways the data might be right or wrong. Worldometer has a page that describes its methods [3], which basically says their policy is to aggregated data from official sources. I think that's reasonable, although I think they could use a bigger "this may be garbage in garbage out" banner so folks don't interpret carelessly.
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/06/world/asia/china-xian-loc... [2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/georgecalhoun/2022/01/05/beijin... [3] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/about/