This is interesting, though. If I pull down those two sets of data and compare deaths to recoveries, check it out.
Some places that tend to have a fair number of cases and reliable reporting are showing very high death rates - Italy, France, and South Korea, as well as those Diamond Princess people. In fairness, Germany and Singapore are reporting none, but the numbers in some of these areas are very high.
So are we seeing significant underreporting of deaths by China? They have one province that is reporting 0 deaths and 538 recoveries, and most of their death rates outside Ground Zero are really low.
This table bothers me, and not just because it's poorly formatted. There's a big difference between a 1 percent death that we've been hearing and a 15 percent death rate.
My hope is that perhaps the death rates outside China are more due to older tourists or something. Maybe there's a skew we don't know about.
Code:
Location Recovered Died Death Rate
Western Australia*Australia 0 1 100.0%
King County, WA*US 1 2 66.7%
*Philippines 1 1 50.0%
*South Korea 30 22 42.3%
"Diamond Princess" cruise ship*Others 10 6 37.5%
*Italy 83 34 29.1%
*Iran 175 54 23.6%
*Japan 32 6 15.8%
*France 12 2 14.3%
Taiwan*Taiwan 12 1 7.7%
Hubei*Mainland China 33757 2803 7.7%
Hong Kong*Hong Kong 36 2 5.3%
Xinjiang*Mainland China 64 3 4.5%
Heilongjiang*Mainland China 350 13 3.6%
*Thailand 28 1 3.4%
Hainan*Mainland China 151 5 3.2%
Beijing*Mainland China 282 8 2.8%
Tianjin*Mainland China 111 3 2.6%
Gansu*Mainland China 84 2 2.3%
Hebei*Mainland China 294 6 2.0%
Henan*Mainland China 1206 22 1.8%
Guizhou*Mainland China 114 2 1.7%
Chongqing*Mainland China 450 6 1.3%
Shandong*Mainland China 455 6 1.3%
Jilin*Mainland China 78 1 1.3%
Yunnan*Mainland China 163 2 1.2%
Guangxi*Mainland China 188 2 1.1%
Shanghai*Mainland China 292 3 1.0%
Liaoning*Mainland China 103 1 1.0%
Sichuan*Mainland China 378 3 0.8%
Anhui*Mainland China 888 6 0.7%
Guangdong*Mainland China 1036 7 0.7%
Shaanxi*Mainland China 209 1 0.5%
Hunan*Mainland China 879 4 0.5%
Fujian*Mainland China 247 1 0.4%
Jiangxi*Mainland China 850 1 0.1%
Zhejiang*Mainland China 1050 1 0.1%
*Belgium 1 0 0.0%
*Cambodia 1 0 0.0%
*Egypt 1 0 0.0%
*Finland 1 0 0.0%
*Germany 16 0 0.0%
*India 3 0 0.0%
*Israel 1 0 0.0%
*Malaysia 18 0 0.0%
*Nepal 1 0 0.0%
*Oman 1 0 0.0%
*Russia 2 0 0.0%
*Singapore 72 0 0.0%
*Spain 2 0 0.0%
*Sri Lanka 1 0 0.0%
*UK 8 0 0.0%
*United Arab Emirates 5 0 0.0%
*Vietnam 16 0 0.0%
Boston, MA*US 1 0 0.0%
British Columbia*Canada 3 0 0.0%
Chicago, IL*US 2 0 0.0%
Inner Mongolia*Mainland China 52 0 0.0%
Jiangsu*Mainland China 538 0 0.0%
London, ON*Canada 1 0 0.0%
Macau*Macau 8 0 0.0%
New South Wales*Australia 4 0 0.0%
Ningxia*Mainland China 69 0 0.0%
Qinghai*Mainland China 18 0 0.0%
Queensland*Australia 1 0 0.0%
San Diego County, CA*US 1 0 0.0%
Santa Clara, CA*US 1 0 0.0%
Shanxi*Mainland China 116 0 0.0%
South Australia*Australia 2 0 0.0%
Tempe, AZ*US 1 0 0.0%
Tibet*Mainland China 1 0 0.0%
Toronto, ON*Canada 2 0 0.0%
Victoria*Australia 4 0 0.0%
Total 45074 3044 6.3%