Coronavirus death in Milton Keynes

[Nudga]

I'm genuinely puzzled by the difference between these numbers.

Italy- 7,375 cases, 366 deaths, 650 serious/ critically ill

South Korea- 7,313 cases, 50 deaths, 36 serious/ critically ill

I have no answers but I can't see why the death/ critical figures should be so radically different.

Age I think Baroni? I'm sure I read somewhere that Italians have one of the highest elderly population.

[The Red Baron]

That would account for the Italian figures being higher, but by that much?

[BillyStubbsTears]

I think it's also accepted that Italy has a lot of undiagnosed cases, whereas South Korea has been testing a lot of people.

There's a similar issue in the USA where they've been caught napping and don't have anything like enough testing kits. Over there, the death rate measured against confirmed cases is 4%. I don't know of any expert who thinks the real death rate is that high. Let's hope the South Korea mortality rate 0.7% is the right one. That's still 15-20 times higher than normal flu but a lot less than 1% which is the standard figure being bandied around.

[wilts rover]

75% of the cases in South Korea are from one church in one city/region

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_outbreak_in_South_Korea